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Show Wrecked Truck The driver was only slightly injured Aug. 5 when his vehicle went through the intersection in-tersection of Walnut Lane and 5th West and landed in the creek bottom. Ronald B. Mitchell, 38. was driving a 1969 Chevrolet pickup pick-up westbound on Walnut Ln. at 10:30 p.m. Traveling at a high rate of speed, he went across 5th West, clipped a steel post, and went airborne for 100 feet nicking a utility pole. The vehicle hit a large rock and slid on its left side for another 200 feet before coming com-ing to rest. Mitchell was taken to Allen Memorial Hospital for treatment of a cut on the forehead. His vehicle was totaled with $2,000 damage, and Deputy Sheriff Lynn I.att charged Mitchell with driving under the influence of intoxicating intoxi-cating liquor. |