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Show Resident Seriously Serious-ly Injured In Car Crash J. A. Holmes, 54, of this city, local representative of the Murray Laundry Laun-dry company, is confined to the Lehi hospital with serious injuries as the result of an auto smash -up on the state highway a mile north of Lehi Monday morning -at 11 o'clock. Mr. Holmes had completed his route through American Fork and Lehi and was headed for Murray. He was driving north, as was Ivan Child of Springville, and for some unaccountable unac-countable reason Mr. Holmes swerved swerv-ed his truck to the left. Childs crashed into the side of the laundry truck and his car turned over in the borrow pit. With Mr. Childs were his wife, and three children, Yvonne, Marjorie and a baby son, also Miss Loretta Harmer of Springville. Spring-ville. Holmes sustained bad cuts on the hip and severe head injuries. His condition was such that he was unable un-able to remember a thing of the accident and could give no reason for turning to the left. It is thought something went amiss with the steering gear of the machine. Miss Harmer was the most severely severe-ly injured in the Childs car, having received a deep scalp laceration and fractured shoulder blade. Mr. and Mrs. Childs were cut and bruised, and Yvonne sustained a broken arm and body bruises. Marjorie and the baby were uninjured. They all were taken to the Lehi hospital for medi cal attention, and the occupants of the Childs car left the hospital for home later in the day. |