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Show AUTO TOLL HIT IN DAVISCOUNTY FARMINGTON With three deaths recorded in traffic accidents acci-dents In 1940, Davis county Thursday Thurs-day was well on its wsy to exceeding exceed-ing the total tali of eight lives lost in traffic during 1939, officials offi-cials feared. In 1938 the toll waa seven. Asserting carelessness on the part of motorists and pedestrians has played a major role In the fatal accidents. Sheriff Joseph Hol-brook Hol-brook lauded the work of highway patrolmen and his deputies. First of the deaths charged last year against the county occurred January 11, 1939, at the Ogden ordnance depot, where workmen found the crushed body at H. P. Wardleigh, 37, of Ogden, beneath a truck they were unloading. Excessive speed was blamed for the county's second fatal accident The victim was Frank P. Bru-netti, Bru-netti, 46, of Ogden, whose car struck a gravel truck and overturned over-turned In a borrow pit, February 8. Death followed April 3 In a Salt Lake City hospital. Playing after dark on an un-lighted un-lighted Syracuse road accounted for the third victim, 5-year-old Jesse Reyes, who wss struck by a hit-run driver April 25 and died two daya later. Charles S. Buckley, 23, of Ogden, waa the county's fourth traffic accident victim. He died April 27, the same day a motorcycle he waa riding went out of control alter striking a ditch east of Kaysville. Tha fifth victim waa Mrs. Adele Barlow, 29, of Woods Cross, who waa riding in a C C C truck west of Woods Cross when tt collided with a motor car June 24. Death came July 5 la a Salt Lake City hospital. July 16 Dean Lewis White, 13, of Bountiful, died almost Instantly Instant-ly when he fell from she rear and of a truck. An unidentified man about 30 years of age waa killed at Farm-lngton Farm-lngton Junction August 1 when he waa struck by a truck. Keith Rappleye Reynolds, 19, ef Orem, waa killed October 9 when a truck rolled 300 feet over a Farmingtoa canyon embankment. |