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Show Cat causes wreck near Crescent Jet. An altercation with a housecat resulted in the destruction of a Rider rental van and $60 to $70 thousand worth of household house-hold items, j Investigating Highway i Patrolman Tim Wall re-i re-i ported that the 1976 GMC van, driven by Lonnie Paul Wornica, 34, of Fruita was southbound on Highway 163 when his cat crawled under his feet. Wornica bent over to 1 retrieve the animal and the van left the road and rolled over, peeling off the roof and scattering furniture furni-ture along the highway. The accident, which occurred Saturday at 7:30 a.m. miles south of Crescent Junction, totalled total-led both the van and its contents. Wornica, who was moving from Fruita, Colo., to California, was cited for failure to maintain main-tain control of his vehicle. Wornica and his son were not injured in the incident. The cat also escaped injury. |