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Show J ; I t ! I ,. ,w,,..c " j I " :'rT:(f '. l '' r. " ; - J - " ' . t . . - .. ' - 1983 Dodge operated by Phoenix, Ariz, woman miles north of Panguitch just after midnight was struck from behind before taking out more Friday night had no serious injuries and was than 50 feet of fence and a gate. Accident three one of two that kept officers and EMTs busy. Midnight Accidents On Friday Send Seven To Area Hospital Two separate accidents just after midnight Friday night kept highway high-way patrol officers and ambulances busy. No serious injuries resulted from either accident, but citations were issued in both, and victims in both required transport by ambulance to Garfield Memorial Hospital. . The first accident about 14 mile east of Foster's on Utah Highway 12 involved three vehicles, vehi-cles, with damages to two and injuries in-juries to four. Stanley Anderson, 17, Richfield, was westbound on Highway 12 when his 1979 Ford pickup ran out of gas. Anderson managed to pull onto a dirt road on the south of the highway where he waved down Shauna Stevens, 19, Bryce, who used her 1976 Olds station wagon to pull Anderson's pickup backwards back-wards back onto the highway. Anderson's An-derson's black pickup with passengers passen-gers Ronnie Davenport, 18, Panguitch, Pan-guitch, and Mary Crawford, 18, Escalante, straddled the westbound lane as Stevens moved her vehicle around him to hook onto his front bumper. Michael Rhoades, 20, Bryce, traveling west in his 1978 Toyota Celica with Travis Oldroyd, 21, also Bryce, said he was blinded by the bright lights on Stevens' car and failed to see Anderson's pickup blocking the westbound lane in which he was traveling. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Craig Twitchell estimated Rhoades' speed at about 55 mph when his Celica struck the pickup broadside. Emergency Medical Technician Alfred Foster who lives nearby See Accident Page 3A Accident Sends Seven To Hospital From Page 1 watched out his window as the accident acci-dent took place. He immediately called his brother Neal Foster, also an EMT, and the two climbed in the ambulance housed at their property prop-erty and headed the short distance to the scene arriving less than five minutes after the impact According to Alfred Foster, the driver of a white Nissan truck following fol-lowing the Rhoades vehicle had placed one of the injured from the Rhoades vehicle in her vehicle and transported him to Bryce Village, while Stevens placed another victim from the Celica in her car and transported him to Loggers Inn, just before the ambulance arrived. Alfred Foster began directing traffic around the collision as EMT Karleen Mclnelly arrived and she and Neal Foster treated Anderson and Davenport, placing them in the ambulance for transport to the hospital. hos-pital. The ambulance stopped at Loggers Inn for the other two victims, vic-tims, one of whom had been transported trans-ported from Bryce Village, and all four victims were taken to Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch where they were treated and released. Twitchell cited Anderson and Stevens for impeding traffic. He said the investigation is continuing and that additional citations may be issued pending results of alcohol testing. Less than half an hour after the first accident, a 1983 Dodge Diplomat without operative tail-lights tail-lights was traveling north on U.S. 89 three miles outside Panguitch when it was struck in the rear by a 1990 Ford Ranger pickup. Investigating officer Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Gaylen Moore said evidence indicated the first vehicle was traveling at approximately ap-proximately 35 mph, and, at impact, im-pact, the second was traveling at 45 mph. Little damage was sustained either to the rear of the Dodge or the front end of the Ford, Moore reported. Both vehicles shot across the southbound lane, the pickup stopping stop-ping on the shoulder, but the Dodge careened through 20 feet of field fence, an 18-foot gate, another 10 feet of field fence and 25 feet of picket fence at the Opal Berrett residence. Moore theorized the operator, Mary Crass, 73, Phoenix, Ariz., may have had her foot on the accelerator rather than the brake. Both she and her passenger, 53-year-old James Deal, also of Phoenix, were wearing seat belts. Both were taken to Garfield Memorial Hospital for treatment and observation and released the following day. Moore cited the driver for no taillights on her vehicle and an expired driver's license. Among the three Richfield residents resi-dents in the pickup, neither the driver, Jason Boots, 18, was hurt nor was his passenger in the extended ex-tended cab, Bret Barney, 17. Front seat passenger Jared Thalman,17, whose head hit the windshield, was treated at Garfield Memorial Hospital Hospi-tal and released. Moore cited Boots for following too close and for having hav-ing a passenger in his vehicle with no seat belt. |