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Show YOUTH KILLED JPOinttAY ATTRMTGll i ' 1 1 ( CCC Enrollee Becomes Utah's 16th Traffic Death of 1940. The death early Thursday of Tremonton CCC enrollee brought Utah's traffic accident toll to 16 tor 1940, an Increase of 23 per cent over the 13 deaths recorded at this time last year. ' Box Elder county authorities said of the last six. traffic fatalities recorded in the' county, lour have been CCC enrollee. It was the first traffic death of the year In Box Elder county, where six fatalities occurred during dur-ing the entire year of 1939. There had been no traffic deaths by February Feb-ruary 1, 1939. , Spoelal to Too TJfrftH TREMONTON A 17-year-old Kansas youth, an enrollee of the Tremonton CCC camp, was killed early Thursday whn walking on II. S. highway 91 about one-fourth mile east of Tremonton. . -- - The victim, was DwrM Simpson, 17, of Jewell, Kan., who was struck by a truck operated by Jack Mason, Ma-son, 19, of Tremonton. " Y According to State Highway Patrolman Pa-trolman Leonard Bishop, who investigated in-vestigated the accident, Simpson and another CCC enrollee, Ray Key, 19, were walking west on the left side of the highway, facing approaching traffic when Simpson was struck by the - westbound . ' truck. Patrolman Bishop said the truck I driver had passed a second west-bound west-bound automobile, driven by Ralph Green, 17, of Tremonton, and was on the wrong side of the highway when the Victim was struck. Mr. Key suffered a minor shoulder shoul-der injury. He was released from a hospital four hours after the accident ac-cident . The victim, who suffered brain concussion and other Injuries, In-juries, died en route to a hospital, less than a block from the scene f the accident. . . . The youths were returning to the CCC camp from the Sunset Ink and were walking down the Malad river hill about 1 'a. m. When the accident occurred. Patrolman Simpson wss continuing continu-ing the Investigation Thursdsy'aft-ernooa Thursdsy'aft-ernooa to determine whether charges should be filed against the truck driver. The victim Joined the Tremonton CCC camp In July, 1938. He Is survived by his mother, Mrs. Ethel Simpson of Jewell. The body will be returned there for funeral services and burial. Brief funeral services will be - conducted at the camp Friday and the body will be returned to Kan- sea Immediately afterward. |