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Show eki kidt by mht CITY'S TRAFFIC-TOLL TRAFFIC-TOLL FOR YEAR KITS TO 33 Driver of Death Car Says Visibility 'Poor The body of Mrs. Lucill. Crow, 48, of 245 East Tint South street lay in the Salt Lake City morgue Thursday. The city's thh-ty-thlrd traffle fatality la ittT and the alnea the. snwith swgaa. aba was truck abevt U:S a. m. aad kUM Instantly by a ear drives, by Ardea B. Kerdgrea, U, BavnUraL Six ether persona nursed Injuries aa a result of traffle mishaps. For some hours police were art-able art-able to Identify tae victim of the accident, but Mrs. Crow was Identified Identi-fied later by a friend and by Detective De-tective Sergeant M. D. MoQinneas, whs said aha was the widow of 'Red" Crew, who tied la aa automobile auto-mobile accident here about 11 years . ago. A child of the couple, a girl. . -was killed in the same agslaaat. toe ... . detective said. Visibility Beerte4 Poe The death of Mrs, Craw occurred on the main highway near 1800 Beck street, according to police. Mr. Nordgren told officers the visibility was poor aa he rounded "Dead Man's curve" and he did not see the woman until it was too late. No charges were filed against Mr. Nordgren, pending an Investigation by Sergeant Harvey C Peirce and Patrolmen Lee Rogers aad T. W. Southworth. An examination of the body die-closed die-closed a broken neck as he cause of death. Mr. Nordgren, who sum- Continued on Pan Nlae) I Column Two) I S. L. Auto Accidents Kill Woman, Injure Six en by H. R. Strother. 437 East Second Sec-ond South street, was in "fairly good" condition and due for discharge dis-charge from Salt Lake General hospital, hos-pital, where he was treated for scalp wounds. Melvln Baaenler, 24. of Minneapolis, Minneap-olis, Minn, victim of an accident Wednesday on th highway two miles south of Sandy, was reported "fair at Salt Lake General hospital Thursday. (Continued from Pfe One) moned police to the scene, said the woman appeared to hav died Immediately. Im-mediately. Sergeant McGinness said Mrs. Crow's nearest relatives live In California. Cali-fornia. Police were attempting to contact them Thursday to ask them to claim the body so that it will not b necessary to bury it in potter's field. The woman, the sergeant said, was part Indian. Of five persons taken to hospitals early Thursday after a headon col-See col-See Picture on Page One llsion at Stat and Thirty-ninth South streets, two had been released later In the day. Milton Bird, 2, of 1340 Bryan avenue, was reported in "fairly good" condition at th L. D. S. hospital, hos-pital, wher he was treated for an injured shoulder. Sheriff's officers said Bird had first admitted driving one of the two automobiles involved and then retracted his admission. Wllford M. Burton, 28, of 2681 East Seventy-second South street, driver of one car. and Mrs. Burton, also 28, were In "fair" condition in Salt Lake General hospital. Mr. Burton suffered a severe scalp laceration lacer-ation and Mrs. Burton, scalp and knee lacerations and body bruises. With Bird in the other car were Kenneth Acocks, 25, of 841 Ramona avenue, and Joseph Smith, 448 East Sixth South street, who also, according accord-ing to sheriffs officers, denied being be-ing at the wheel. Both suffered cuts and bruises. William J. Johnston, M. of 1128 Indiana avenue, struck Wednesday night at Second West street and Broadwsy by a car reportedly driv- |