1949-08-06-sc-p20-highway-smash-injures-four-reardan-hospital

August 06, 1949 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 20:

HIGHWAY SMASH INJURES FOUR

A sedan and a pick-up truck collided two miles west of Reardan at the Edwall junction yesterday afternoon and four persons were injured.

The state patrol] reported the accident was caused when a third car, carrying Ontario license plates, passed the sedan. It sped away from the scene of the accident at high speed and has not been apprehended, the patrol said.

Francis Begovich, driver of the eastbound sedan, and his sister, Katherine Begovich, both of Rock Springs, Wyo., suffered severe head and hand cuts, After treatment at the Reardan hospital last night, he was brought to Sacred Heart hospital here.

Head cuts were suffered by the driver and a passenger in the pickup, the patrol said,