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Show QUICK THINKING IN . HIGHWAY CRiSIi SAVES TWO LIVES "They're Alive!" The exclamation came from a young woman as she saw two young men emerge from the cab ..t- a large truck that was driven j o er an embankment to avoid a Kullis.on. with a car driven by the. ' woman. She clutched her hus-I hus-I band's arm. and tried very hard to I keep from fainting. j The accident happened recently a few miles of Massacre Rocks in Power county. The car had struck a soft shoulder and in her attempt ,o right it the woman drove in front of the oncoming truck. The I driver, w.th a quick presence of I mind, turned the wheel and tent I the truck crashing through a ; guard rail for a lolfoot drop. A bouldeit prevented the huge trailer i from crushing the two men to ' death in the cab. The woman was arrested and fined $5 and $3 costs for operating a car without a driver's dri-ver's licem.e. The damage to the truck was estimated at $5,000 by j its owner. This is one of the many nonfatal non-fatal accidents reported to the safety safe-ty bureau of the law enforcement department announced Commissioner Commis-sioner J. L. Balderston. Another non-fatal accident with little property damage, reports reveal, re-veal, was investigated recently in Bingham county where a state police officer found a while coupe standing in several feet of water in a canal The driver, according to the officer, had a few drinks too many and was sitting in the car with the water above his waist line. He was splashing the water and shouting. 'Help me get this water outa here, so's I can get out!" A Boise girl was sent to a hospital hos-pital for ueaimeiit of ulie injuiies . she received when the horse she was riding was struck by an auto, mobile The horse was shov. A (hit-and-run driver struck a boy riding a bicycle. The boy escaped es-caped with a few bruises but the hike was wrecked. The driver kept on going. Within the past two months the 'upholstering and rear sexta of four automobiles were destroyed by fire, which was said to have been started by discarded cigarettes cigar-ettes which were blown into the rear window when thrown from the driver's window. |