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Show I March 14, 1979, Page CLEARFIELD COURIER, 'Mars fiiminn) It was warm, but'cloudy on Feb. 13 when Annette Cox, drove from her home in Hooper and headed for Roy High School. She left early to practice her routines with the Roy High School varsitv cheer leader squad. Annette was happy ; everything was going her way. Her Royals were winning their basketball games, and she was looking forward to Hoy s game at her car. Witnesses at the scene are convinced that the position of her knees saved her life. First to arrive at the accient was Robert Marigonia, who lives a few blocks north of the intersection. Marigonia was just leaving for work when he heard the collision and rushed to help out. As he approached the wreck he met the driver of the other car, who was returning from seeking help from a neighbors house. It was later learned that the lady in the other car had a couple of broken ribs and a busted knee cap, but ignored the pain to seek aid for Annette. Needless to say, she was in shock Marigonia dropped to Annette's side to help, and called for a neighbor to get his fork lift tractor. Working in tandem, the two men raised the wreckage, but dared not move An- Bonneville, and Friday's show down game with Clearfield. 9ie approached the stop sign at 5100 and 5100 So. and as she had hun dreds of times, and pulled into the inW. d tersection. She didn't see the big station wagon, bearing down on her, nor did the driver of the on coming car see her before it was too late. There was a squeal of brakes and an awful crash, as the south bound car and rammed halfhit her broad-sid- e Maverik Ansmall the way through nette was driving. gold-colore- b O G u O Q Vv'o The impact hurtled her through the door on the passenger side, and to pavement. The force of the crash carried both vehicles 75 feet down the road, with Annette tumbling and sliding ahead of the tangled cars. The compact bounced, then came to rest pinning Annette beneath it. As the car came down, Annette who was curled up in a ball took most of the force on her knees. Her left foot was planted on the pavement, as the car came to rest on her left knee while the other knee was tucked under her chin, shielding her head and chest, from the twisted metal that had beeh SZj a n Cr CHEERFUL ANNETTE COX 1 1 watches state tournament action. netle was placed in the ambulance and rushed to the Dee McKay Hospital. The driver of the other car was also 'aken to the hospital for treatment ol her in juries. "That kid taught me a lesson t:i faith," reflected Marigoma. a district manager at Cutters Laboratories heard her screaming, even as I left my house, a quarter ol a mile away was first to arrive at the accident and found the other driver going into shock. I put her in the car, and told someone to look after her and knelt down to the girl pinned under the wreckage. The car was resting on her left knee, and the other knee was pushed up under her chin, w it h the car pressing down on it She was begin ning to panic, so began talking She told me that Father in Heaven would help ' her. and asked me to pray lor her Marigonia. by hi.-- nw n admission, is not a religous ma:,. and told her lie couldn't pray. She kept forget." he related repeating that Father in Heaven was there and I believed her." It took the doctors three hours to patch Annette up, and cast her broken legs. She required plastic surgery to cover the scrapes and cuts on her back and it took more than a tew stitches on her knee and forehead She was in the hospital eight days, hu' is home now, recuperating and getting tired of the "itchy casts." Even from her hospital room. An nette did her part in helping her Royals best Clearfield in basket bali Her Iriends in the duerleader corps taped her words of encour.igemo'! and pla; cd them at the studeUDod-- ' pep rally. There were only live cheerleaders out front d the Gear field game, but everybody was aware of one little girl in a hospital bed a no wa pulling for her Royals, as they won the Region One championship. Even now there are only five cheerleaders, leaving the vacancy in honor of Annette, who tried so hard to k there I 1 . 1 nette for fear oi injury to her spine. Personnel from the Weber County Fire Department arrived on the scene and moments later the Paramedics were there, but they still refrained from moving her until a special-buil- t stretcher could be located to pick her up. It was almost an hour before An u. Yes vou can. 1 know vou can sisted Annette, and he did oiler prayer as he held her hands tor most ol an hour, under the mangled car "It was an experience I shall never Doctors promised Annette that she would lie allowed to go to the state tournament and she held them to it. scheduled by gymnasts Tri-me- et This Thursday, March 15, Round I the 1979 Region Ones womens gymnastics season gets underway. All the eight schools will be performing. of test skills and balance in an afternoon match with the Viewmont Viking girls. The Region One ranks are filled with talented and competitive teams this season. The Region One meet on, April 28 at Clearfield will be an ex-plosive day as all the teams get , together, Clearfield High performed before the PTA last Thursday evening at the high school and Coach Sydney Conley" termined it a real success." t ; 1' The final meet is scheduled to take place at Roy High where both Bonneville and Bountiful will compete with the Royals in a Their meet is scheduled tro take place in the afternoon also. ' A has been scheduled to take place at Clearfield. 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