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Show Speeding Machine Kills One Man, Injures Another Skidding and rolling 250 feet after leaping the highway at a turn, a speeding automobile snuffed out one man's life and injured another man here at 11:55 Thursday night, February 8. For a brief interval after the car started its fatal plunge from the highway at the first turn entering the city, the driver and his passenger pass-enger foresaw the impending dis- aster, and the driver tried desperately des-perately to avoid it. John Lindsay McDougall, 29, of 974 West Fourth South street, Salt Lake City, was killed, and his companion, com-panion, Everett Peterson, 24, of 460 South Ninth West street, Salt Lake City, received minor injuries in the accident. A moment after the car went out of control and started on its skidding skid-ding course, the driver cried: "We're going over!", Peterson reported. In that interval, McDougall struggled frantically to regain control of the car, Peterson said. McDougall was driving west into American Fork at what witnesses declared was a high rate of speed. Approaching the turn, the car went straight ahead and after skidding and rolling, came to a stop in the triangular area beside the highway. Witnesses rushed to the scene and lifted the car from the victims, who were lying cross-wise beneath the overturned sedan. McDougall, who apparently received re-ceived the full impact of the overturning over-turning car, died within a few min-I min-I utes after the crash. The edge of the car top had struck him on the chest, and he was lying with his head and neck protruding and the rest of his body underneath the car, before the machine was lifted from hinu Peterson, although trapped beneath the car with only his feet and legs protruding, suffered only shock, cuts and bruisis. The accident was investigated by Highway Patrolman Melvin W. Grant, Night Marshal Gilbert Shumway, and Special Police Offi- cer Albert Birk. Funeral services for McDougall were conducted Sunday afternoon in the Twenty-Fifth ward chapel at Salt Lake City. Mr. McDougall is survived by his mother, Mrs. Janet L. McDougall; two brothers, Kenneth Ken-neth C. McDougall and Donald McDougall, Mc-Dougall, and three sisters, Winnie M. McDougall, . Gladys McDougall and Lucille G. McDougall, all of Salt Lake City. Mr. McDougall was a driver for the J. R. Bratt. company of Salt Lake City. He was born at Heber, August 25, 1911. . The two men were returning from a trip to Provo .when the accident occurred. The fatality was the fifth in Utah county this year, and the twenty-second twenty-second in the state since January 1. It was the first traffic fatality within with-in the American Fork city limits in more than two years. , o |
