Show I DEATHS HIT 93 IN UTAH TAH he lie death Thursday of a Salt to motorist who was struck by automobile on the Saltair high- high Vh le pushing his own car Utah's 1940 traffic fatal- fatal toll toll 1 to 93 a 22 per cent increase increaser r he the 76 killed in traffic by this thise e W. W a year ago alt alt Lake county's total rose to ton n n 12 12 per cent fewer than the killed up to the same date injuries in J 1 juries ies sUf suffered when hen struck by automobile while he was push- push is own car which had run toi of gasoline proved fatal at atI J I Irs ja a. a m. m Thursday for Ernest L L. Continued on Page Paje Four Column Five I Utah Traffic Toll Mounts to 93 as gas Car Kills Man Pushing His Own Oven Auto on Salt Saltair air Highway i J i s J y 6 h 5 s k k 55 M. M y F. F N HOW now MOTORIST MET DEATH WHILE PUSHING HIS STALLED AUTOMOBILE Reenactment of circumstances that cost life liCe 0 of f Ernest L L. Meik l who was pushing eastbound car when struck by y an another other eastbound automobile Continued from rage Page One On Meik 30 of sf Kensington avenue He was injured at 1030 p. p m. m Wednesday on highway U U. S. S 40 three miles west of the Salt Lake municipal airport the driver of the theother theother theother other car being Reid Hoover 39 of 1351 Roosevelt avenue Both cars were eastbound Deputy Sheriff Ernest Caldwell Caldwel said Mr Meik and Max D. D Peterson Peterson Peterson Peter Peter- son of Midvale who had been riding riding riding rid rid- ing In the Meik car were pushing the car while Mrs Meik steered The officers officer's report quoted Mr Hoover as saying he was traveling behind another automobile which swerved out to avoid the Meik car carand and that he too swerved to the right but not enough to to avoid the collision Mr Hoover said he did not see any tail light on the Meik Melk car according to the officers officer's report which stated there were no tire marks to indicate application of brakes in the Hoover car Mr Peterson is quoted as saying he heard an automobile behind him and jumped to the right escaping injury Mr Meik suffered a compound fracture of the left leg I Mrs Hoover 30 suffered bruises I Ion on the right knee and forehead and a scalp cut and Mrs Paul H. H Innes 28 of East Seventeenth South street another passenger in the Hoover car suffered face bruises Both were treated at atthe atthe atthe the police emergency hospital Deputy Sheriff Caldwell reported report report- ed the impact sent the Meik car feet along the highway until it went into the borrow pit anc and the Hoover automobile continued 30 feet skidded 33 feet farther along the right side of the highway highway highway high high- way and into the pit The accident will be classified as asa asa asa a motor vehicle-pedestrian vehicle fatality Mr Meik was born in Salt Lake City on February 22 1910 son of Francis T. T and Emma T. T Meik He Heis Heis Heis is survived by his widow Mrs Margaret Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet McKinley Meik two brothers broth broth- ers Francis Meik and Lowell Meik both of Salt Lake City eight sisters sisters sisters sis sis- Mrs Lloyd Winn of Heber Mrs William Ledingham of Magna Mag- Mag na Mrs Royal Smith of Taylorsville Taylorsville Taylors- Taylors ville yule Mrs Henrietta Woolley of oJ Leadville Colo and Mrs Edward Dieterle Miss Naomi Meik Miss Sue Meik and Mrs Blaine Phillips of Salt Lake City Funeral arrangements will be made by the Larkin mortuary |