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Show One injured in ear snonmobile QGGiibtf Mark Truman was seriously injured Sunday evening when the snowmobile he was riding collided with a car driven by Darrin Mal-chus. Mal-chus. Truman suffered a broken left femur, which was badly shattered, and after emergency treatment atMil-ford atMil-ford Valley Memorial Hospital, Hos-pital, was flown to the University Uni-versity Medical Center, where he underwent several hours of surgery. No prog- Onosis on the outcome was available at press time. The accident happened when the car turned from 100 west onto 600 south and Truman was unable to negotiate nego-tiate his vehicle around the ' car, and ran under the right rear bumper. The accident was investigated investi-gated by Deputy Fothering- ham and City Marshall Hannah. Han-nah. There was little dam age to the car, but the snowmobile snow-mobile received considerable consider-able damage. Mark is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Truman, of Minersville, and is married to the former Louise Smith. With the snow covered streets, a number of local residents took to the streets Sunday with their snowmobiles. snow-mobiles. Mark was following Les White on another snowmobile when the accident happened. White passed the car, but Truman evidently didn't see the car turning into his path and was unable to navigate navi-gate his vehicle around it. The law forbids the use of off road vehicles on city streets. |