[Evans, Marv]

I've seen some sights, but one that was tragic stands out. Back in the '60s when I worked in the mountains, I was driving up into the foothills to work for the week. On a sweeping curve, I saw a truck hauling timber enter the top of the curve. My first thought was that those guys really hauled ass down the mountains. We passed in the middle of the curve, and I saw the inside duals of the rear dolly lifting off & bumping back down on the road. After we passed each other, I continued to look in the rear view mirror to see the load slide off the road jack knifing the trailer with the tractor. The trailer & load hit the hill side in a road cut, and the tractor separated and slid down the middle of the pavement on it's side. I hauled a U turn & hurried down to see if there was anything I could do. When I got out & went up to the tractor, it was on its side with the door peeled back & the driver's head was on the pavement just separated from the cab. He had been flung out & the edge of the roof had landed on his neck as the truck hit the pavement. There was a long line of blood going downhill on the pavement and his face turned to a dark purple. I waited for somebody else to arrive & told the driver to get the highway patrol. After a little while several cars had stopped, and since there was nothing I could do, I gave my name & phone number to one of the people as a witness and continued on up the road to where I worked. A few days later I got a call from the Highway Patrol telling me an officer wanted to talk to me about the accident. I described what I had seen to him, and he said it was very different from what somebody at the scene told them I said. He said they told them I said the driver was driving slowly at about 20 mph & had a wild look on his face. Anyway another sad part was the driver was only 19 and had just gotten married the week before.