Show Gasoline tanker crash proves fatal to driver The driver of a PIE gasoline truck tanker met a fiery death Monday morning when his rig shot off a steep grade and burst into Into flames TIlE THE ACCIDENT site was 54 miles north of Vern Vernal l on SR 44 only one mile downhill from the Sheep Creek scenic overlook site to the Sheep Creek Bay of Flaming Gorge Reservoir Driver of the fatal over cab tank and trailer unit was Wallace D. D Allen 34 Salt Lake City Ac According to Allen AlIen Voorhies investigator for the Utah Public Service Commission the tanker unit was was w s j traveling tr northbound at excessive speed down the steep eight percent grade probably due to brake failure Th The trailer unit apparently knifed jack around the tractor turning the unit around and off the th left embankment emba of the roadway down a steep slope The unit ev evidently dently immediately caught fire and burned the entire contents of both t tanks as aswell aswell aswell well as the ta tanks ks themselves HI n rit 1 T n rv wash thrown grown THE TilE DRIVER was out of the cab and found lying several f feet et away away from the unit but was burned beyond identification identification identification iden iden- when found by officers officers' of of- Even the identification papers on the body were consumed consumed consumed con con- by the terrific heat stated Voorhies Ashley National Forest personnel were at the scene to contain the gasoline and brush fire and nd to keep it from spreading Time of the accident was am a.m. Investigation was made by Daggett County Sheriff Kenneth Reed fI r f It 6 fl J It i j J Jr W I. I r Z n 0 I I D j 1 t fj f f s1 t TWISTED CAB SECTION of a 1968 engine PIE gasoline transport wrecked Monday on SR 44 down the Dowd Mountain cutoff highway The body of the driver was found in the foreground of the picture according to those at al the scene |