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Show Two People Fatally Injured In Car Accidents In County This Week Tourist's Driving Thru Stop Sign Causes Death of Leeds CCC Lad Two people were fatally injured in accidents during the past week to bring the Washington county record to the highest for auto fatalities fa-talities in years. A total of nine accidents were reported and investigated in-vestigated by officers during the past week between Cedar City and Las Vegas. Those killed were Leo Saskins. Leeds CCC enrollee and Robert W. Crane, one of a group of musicians mu-sicians from Cedar Rapids. Iowa, who were on their way to play in California. Saskins was killed at S:30 a. m Wednesday at Anderson's Junction Junc-tion when Viola Gay Wilson, a tourist from Los Angeles, ran through the stop sign at the junction junc-tion causing the driver of the CCC truck to lose control and throw Saskins out with the result re-sult that the truck passed over his body, killing him almost instantly. in-stantly. Miss Wilson was arrested by L. A. Porter who investigated the accident with the assistance of Patrolman Lorin Squires, and : charged with driving through the ; stop sign without stopping. She is said by Patrolman Porter to I have admitted her guilt. Crane was killed when the car in which he was riding rolled over, throwing him out and j crushing him. The accident oc-j oc-j cured Saturday night at 7 p. m., just beyond the Virgin river I bridge on highway 17 between here and Hurricane. Sheriff An-' An-' tone B. Prince investigated the accident. He reports that the car (Continued on page eight) Two Highway Deaths (Continued from first Dagei swung across the far side of the road and then turned too quickly with the result that it skidded and turned over. A third accident' was investigated investi-gated by Sheriff Prince Sunday morning when slippery roads caused a car to skid sideways for 268 feet and then roll over for another 128 feet. The car was right side up when it finally stopped. One of the occupants of the car, Lillian Heddrick of Corona, Cor-ona, Calif., was injured but not fatally. |