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Show AVOIDS WOMAN; RUNS INTO AUTO Truck Driver Takes Chance Looking Best in State Road Hazard Chooslnp between runninr down lyoung woman, crashing Kad-on Into nn approaching car. or smashing Into the rear of a machine ahead o( him. G G. Hewitt TIT Twenty-ninth street, driving o larg'- truck on Itlverdale road late yesterday, decided that hitting hit-ting the car ahead would cause the least damage and he smashed Into II The Ford car. containing J. Mulr of Clinton, who was driving his wife and Mrs A. K. Harvey and I wo children, wclr knocked a distance of lufi feet, according to measurements later taken tak-en by Sheriff Richard Plneock. In Its mad flight It knocked down a wire fence, two sturdy fence posts and flnallv landed in the yard of 11. m-y Chtlds. I Mr. Mulr sustained slight cuts on the hand from the broken windshield land the other occupants of the car were badly shaken up, but not Injured. In-jured. j Hewitt, the truck driver, told Sheriff I PlnCOCk he was driving toward Ogdeh 'hi hind the Kurd car occupied by Mr, Mulr. He said that Mulr suddenly topped to Pick lip a young woman who was alongside the road To have swerved to the left of the machine would have meant the running down of the woman, he said. A glance up I the road on the right side showed an-othcr an-othcr car approaching at hlch speed i He decided quickly and crashed into I the rear of the oar ahead. I Hewitt was driving the large trucl jtff the Utah Bottling Works. The rad-jlator rad-jlator was crushed and a tender broken brok-en The rear of the Mulr car was demolished the top swept away and the Windshield smashed. The two drivers reached an amiable settlement. |