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Show Ohio Man Is Third To Die In Ouchesne Traffic Gerald Hinkle, 49, of Ashland, Ash-land, Ohio, became Duchesne County's third traffic fatality this year. He was killed Aug. 24 at approximately 8:15 p.m. 2IV2 miles west of Duchesne on U. S. Highway 40. He was driver of the 1953 Ford sedan which went out of control and rolled over several times, 118 feet down a boulder-strewn embankment. em-bankment. Highway Patrolman Howard Powell, who investigated, said the car had been traveling at a high rate of speed. The two passengers in the vehicle were both injured Eugene Hinkle, 52, brother of the driver, also of Ashland, Ohio, was critically injured and was taken by ambulance to the Roosevelt Hospital for emergency emer-gency treatment then" transferred transfer-red to a Salt Lake City hospital. Samuel Gillespie, 57, of Chicago. Chi-cago. 111., the other passenger, was treated for cuts, bruises and shock at .Roosevelt. All- three men were thrown from the vehicle. The other highway deaths in Duchesne County this year oc-cured oc-cured near this same strip of road on July 24. The second highway victim was a tenn-age boy driving a tractor on the highway near Roosevelt at night. He was killed during mid-August.- |