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Show I TOOELE CRASH IMPROVES FATALt TO HITCHHIKER Passenger in Car Badly Injured West of Granrsville i Traffic death struck again Friday on Utah's highways, in creasing the state's 1939 toll j to 112. The victim was Sam Hansen, 21- year-old hitch-hiker from Stan-, Stan-, wood. Wash, fatally hurt In a Too-; Too-; ele county accident, i His death was the third this year I In the county, which had five fa-j fa-j talities to September 29. 1938, a decrease of 40 per cent The state i toll compares with 141 In the same period last year, a decrease of 20.5 per cent Passenger in Car J Also Badly Hurt I Special to The Telegram I G RANTS VTLLE, Sept 29-Sam '; Hansen, 21, of Stanwood, Wash, t lost a race with death Friday when j he died of Injuries suffered In an accident 40 miles west of here. He died In an ambulance carry-! carry-! Ing him and Walter Sprague, 21, of Reno, Nev, from the accident scene to a Salt Lake hospital. His injuries in-juries Included crushed skull and chest punctured lungs and broken collarbone. Sprague, who suffered a probable proba-ble broken neck, was unconscious when admitted to the hospital. The body of Hansen was returned re-turned to a Tooele mortuary, where efforts to locate relatives were Instituted. Sheriff Alma White of Tooele county, who Investigated with the assistance of Deputy T. Theo Tate, reported the accident occurred about 5:45 a. m. Friday on U. S. highway 40-50 when Sprague, driving driv-ing the coupe, fell asleep while the machine was traveling east toward Salt Lake City. . The sheriff said Sprague, Hansen Han-sen and Douglas Sample, 20, of Sanger, Cal, who were hitchhiking hitch-hiking their way east had been picked up at Reno by the owner of OoaUnuaa on Pana Nina) (Column Ooa) Tooele Crash Proves Fatal (Coatlaiu r Fa On) the car. Henry Kobobell, 30, of San Jose, Cal. Kobobell, who suffered hesd Injuries, and Sample, unhurt, were taken to Tooele. Sheriff White said the car left the highway and traveled off the road for more than 100 feet before be-fore swerving back and skidding another 100 feet. The car rolled over twice, spilling the occupants on the hlghwsy and probably rolling roll-ing on Hansen before coming to rest, almost demolished. Dr. J. H. MiUburn of Tooele, summoned by the sheriff, attended the victims at the wreck scene, approximately ap-proximately 51 miles west of Tooele. An ambulance from Tooele was summoned and began the race with death to Salt Lake City. |