Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-07 | Page 17 | Crash Costs Girl Dearly as 20 Months Slip Past

Crash Costs Girl Dearly As 20 Months Slip Past SHE WELLS KNOWS THE COST OF A NAUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Alzada Denney, hurt 20 months ago, three trips back to hospital. Others Died on Tragic Night in 1936, Girl Lives to Urge Caution on All Motorists Keilnr'a aatr: Aalamnslle arrteata rrprrwtt an SS.ono.ooo aanael toaa la Itah. af-rordtnc ta flSHr rMnHtoS hr th national aaffly rawnrll. llrapa af water make aa nrran an vara arrhtrat ruatrlbatra ta lata atassrrtas fatal. tplrai riw la SaacrtsaS here. It isn't necessary to tell Alzada Denney, 21, of Union anything about the "cost" of accidents. I She knows from bitter experience. ..-.... Nearly 20 months have passed since the two- ar.tu.-vif car colgjon jn which she suffered fractures of OF A both legs but she is still in a hospital bed. SERIES Three times she has been taken home, and three times complications have sent her back to the hospital. "And I have no idea how much longer I'll have to stay this time," she said Tuesday. "I had just graduated from Jordan Jor-dan high school and had a job promised prom-ised when this accident happened. It makes me sick to think that I might have been working more than a year but for this." At that, however, A leads was fortunate, for-tunate, for three persons were killed In the collision in which she and five others were injured on the state highway near Centervllle April 13, 1936. Many years of fruitful endeavor which would have been of profit to both of them and their state seemed in store for Richard Eldredge a Smoot, 21, Bountiful: Lester Wayne Cardwell. 18, of 4840 South State street, and Max Carlston. 20, of 1194 Forty-eighth South street until un-til that accident snuffed out their lives. Both cars were reduced to scrap iron and splintered glass. "I was asleep in the back aeat when the accident happened, so I don't know what caused it," Miss Denney said. "I do wish, though, that all motorists motor-ists would drive slower. It frightens fright-ens me to death to see the way cars race past the hospital."