Show i I Al thanked for help Dear Being involved in law enforcement for 17 I am quite used to people not wanting to Involve themselves in others' Stories abound in Utah and other states of motorists refusing to stop and give aid to injured parties on the My story is quite Recently my family and I were ning from Vernal in our brand new Blazer with a very large trailer filled with our of A short distance out of sometime after auer the me trailer blew a a tire lire and spilling our wood and all over the That I and mv family were killed I not or was The point I wish to emphasize is that nearly every car and truck coming from both directions stopped and of- Kid One stands out from all the His name is Arvid a school teacher in Ver- In spite of being informed that we would be all Oakley position- ed his car to provide us with maximum safety from oncoming traffic and then sure that our injuries were He then set about getting the upright and off of the highway helped to remove a huge pile of wood from the highway he took approximately 24 Two of my relatives later arrived with another truck and but Oakley insisted on staying lo help reload the By the time the acci- dent had been Investigated and we were ready to Oakley had worked most of the I am sure Oakley and the others that stopped and offered help have no idea of how much they raised my opinion of the human I believe more people should know about incidents such as 1 written to you to thank everyone who offered to help us but to especially express our gratitude to a special thanks should be extended to the Highway Patrolman who assisted us and did an outstanding Thank you for helping to make this in- public and showing that the peo- i pie of Utah do care enough to help Lynn J. Lund Executive |