Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-12-13 | Page 3 | Utahn Dies of Injuries from Head-on Crash

Utahn Dies of From Head On Crash Death of James Williams 78 Mountain Green Morgan county county coun- coun ty y of injuries received in a traffic accident at Ogden Wednesday i had lad raised the states state's 1941 1041 traffic toll to or 16 more than for or the entire year of 1940 Mr Williams died Friday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon in an Ogden hospital of chest chestand and nd lung injuries suffered in a on head collision between the automobile automobile au- au he was driving and a state highway truck driven by George D. D Neville 54 of Twenty-seventh Twenty street Ogden The accident occurred Wednesday Wednesday Wednes- Wednes day lay afternoon on Washington boulevard Ogden just north of the old municipal airport when dense lense fog obscured vision of the drivers rivers James A. A Larson and George S. S Weber county deputy sheriffs said after an investigation Mr Williams was driving south I toward his home in in Mountain I Green after a visit to Ogden The truck was moving north The vehicles collided head Mr N Neville was unhurt Mr Williams' Williams death brought this years year's traffic death toll in Utah to 93 per cent above the entire 1940 fatality total The 1941 toll to date is 30 above an increase of 19 per cent the December 13 1940 total of Weber county's traffic deaths to date total 12 same as on December December December De- De cember 13 last year and only one less than the entire 1940 toll