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Show Washington County Girl Killed South oi Cedar City An empty tanker truck -sedan collision on the snow-covered I highway five miles South of Cedar Ce-dar Ciry Saturday afternoon c' llmej the life of a 17 year old Washington County girl, the second sec-ond traffic fatality in Iron County Coun-ty this year. Sonja Hafen, 17, Ivins, Washington Wash-ington County, a Dixie High School student, died when the car in which she was -riding skidded on the slippery highway high-way and crashed Into the truck. James Alfred Young, 18, Santa Maria, Calif., student at Dixie College and driver of the car, was taken , to the Iron County Hospital for, treatment for head lacerations, and concussion. He is renqrted as recovering satisfactorily. satisfac-torily. Pete Bancroft, Granger, Utah, who was driving the truck, said the north bound automobile skidded skid-ded sideways and collided with the truck, which was traveling South. The rear of the car was telescoped and the vehicle was tossed to one side of the highway. high-way. The truck Jack-knifed and skidded off the other sloe of the highway. The truck driver was uninjured. Miss Hafen was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Hafen, Ivins, and is survived by her parents, two brothers and three sisters. i Funeral services were conducted Tuesday in the Santa Clara Ward I chapel. |