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Show City named in suit for $2.5 million Pleasant Grove City has been named in a $2,510,000 lawsuit filed Oct. 20 in Provo's Fourth District court by the parents of a youth who was killed in an accident at the Round-About Raceway. Also named in the suit are Liz Willingham, Don Willingham and five John Does. The suit charges that Cory Dixon, son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Dixon, Salem, was killed as a result of negligence in the July 31, 1982 accident. The youth was killed when he was run over by the wheels of the watering truck used to keep the dust down on the dirt oval track located near the Pleasant Grove Rodeo Grounds. The suit alleges that the water truck and the track were negligently designed, constructed, managed, maintained, supervised " and operated. It also states that the truck was not in safe condition, the racetrack was not maintained in a safe condition, and inadequate warning and instruction was given to those attending or working at the track. The suit also claims there had not been developed emergency response procedures and there had been failure to maintain adequate emergency equipment at the race track. It was reported at the time the accident occurred that the youth had been assisting at the track on a volunteer basis. There was no paid help at the race track. Reports stated that according to Liz Willingham, track manager, all workers at the track had been told to stay away from the water truck when it was in use. At the time of the accident it was reported that the Dixon youth had been walking toward the water truck while it was spraying the track. He apparently slipped and fell beneath the wheels, witnesses said. |