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Show Patrol Checked Wreck Near Airport Highway Patrol Trooper Ron Wood investigated an accident Jan. 6 when a vehicle and four Vernal resident occupants ended up in the large washed-out hole to the right of the Kiondyke bridge a mile from Canyonlands Field. The accident occurred at 6 am, Wood reported when William Vincent Ingalls, 26, driving a 1960 Chevrolet, went to sleep at the wheel while southbound and the vehicle went off the road and dropped into the hole, sustaining $400 damage, total for the vehicle. Ingalls failed to report the accident until 9:00 am and was cited for reckless driving and failure to make report of an accident. Kenneth Lynn Stanley, Stan-ley, Jr., 33 and Ricky Smuin, 20, were taken to Allen Memorial Hospital by a passing motorist and were treated for injuries. Elroy Hartinger, 24, another occupant occu-pant of the car, was not injured. |