Died in a motor vehicle - train accident the day before he was to be married to Donna Pace. He was a truck driver for Lehi Dairy.
Deseret News - Saturday Evening, January 10, 1948
Crossing Crash Claims Second in Family
LEHI - Murdin Clements, 20, son of Mrs. Emma Clements, killed yesterday when a Diesel-powered train collided with his truck at the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's main line crossing south of the sugar factory here, was the second member of the family killed at the same crossing.
Twenty years ago his uncle was killed and his father was severely injured in a motor vehicle-train accident at the same crossing. The uncle was Steve Clements, and the father was Eric LeRoy Clements, who has since died.
To Have Been Wed
The young man was to have married Donna Marie Pace tonight. The ceremony was to have been conducted in the Lehi Second Ward chapel with Bishop Cecil L. Ash officiating.
Miss Pace is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Pace and her fiancé was employed by her father and was making his regular rounds with the dairy truck when the fatal collision occurred.
The accident was the second train-car crash to occur in Lehi in slightly more than two weeks. Jack Zimmerman, 16, Lehi was killed Dec. 23 when a train struck his car near the D&RG Railroad station there.
The engineer of the 33-car freight train, R. A. Hales, Salt Lake City, told officers he saw the truck approaching but evidently Clements failed to see the train in the heavy fog.
Train Going 45 MPH
Hales said the train was going 45 miles an hour and the speed of the truck was estimated at about 10 miles per hour. Clements himself was thrown 114 feet down the track but parts of the truck were carried nearly two-thirds of a mile before the locomotive was able to stop. Clements body was found 21 feet east of the track.
Train crew members included Mr. Hales; U Yetter, 404 Post St.; E. T Wilson, 176 Coatsville Ave.; B. E. Pope, 2076 Vermon Ave., Salt Lake City, and J. L. Brown, 299 Second Ave., Midvale.
Mr. Clements was born May 24, 1927, in American Fork, a son of Eric LeRoy and Emma Culmer Clements. He was a graduate of Lehi High School and had lived in this area all his life.
Surviving are his mother; three brothers, Kenneth Clements, Pleasant Grove, and LaVell and Ronald Clements, American Fork; two sisters, Opal and Sally Clements, American Fork; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. [Edward Amos] Clements, American Fork.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wing Mortuary, Lehi.
Newspaper Article Contributor: Stacey Day (47333636)
Deseret News - Saturday Evening, January 10, 1948
Crossing Crash Claims Second in Family
LEHI - Murdin Clements, 20, son of Mrs. Emma Clements, killed yesterday when a Diesel-powered train collided with his truck at the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's main line crossing south of the sugar factory here, was the second member of the family killed at the same crossing.
Twenty years ago his uncle was killed and his father was severely injured in a motor vehicle-train accident at the same crossing. The uncle was Steve Clements, and the father was Eric LeRoy Clements, who has since died.
To Have Been Wed
The young man was to have married Donna Marie Pace tonight. The ceremony was to have been conducted in the Lehi Second Ward chapel with Bishop Cecil L. Ash officiating.
Miss Pace is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Pace and her fiancé was employed by her father and was making his regular rounds with the dairy truck when the fatal collision occurred.
The accident was the second train-car crash to occur in Lehi in slightly more than two weeks. Jack Zimmerman, 16, Lehi was killed Dec. 23 when a train struck his car near the D&RG Railroad station there.
The engineer of the 33-car freight train, R. A. Hales, Salt Lake City, told officers he saw the truck approaching but evidently Clements failed to see the train in the heavy fog.
Train Going 45 MPH
Hales said the train was going 45 miles an hour and the speed of the truck was estimated at about 10 miles per hour. Clements himself was thrown 114 feet down the track but parts of the truck were carried nearly two-thirds of a mile before the locomotive was able to stop. Clements body was found 21 feet east of the track.
Train crew members included Mr. Hales; U Yetter, 404 Post St.; E. T Wilson, 176 Coatsville Ave.; B. E. Pope, 2076 Vermon Ave., Salt Lake City, and J. L. Brown, 299 Second Ave., Midvale.
Mr. Clements was born May 24, 1927, in American Fork, a son of Eric LeRoy and Emma Culmer Clements. He was a graduate of Lehi High School and had lived in this area all his life.
Surviving are his mother; three brothers, Kenneth Clements, Pleasant Grove, and LaVell and Ronald Clements, American Fork; two sisters, Opal and Sally Clements, American Fork; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. [Edward Amos] Clements, American Fork.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wing Mortuary, Lehi.
Newspaper Article Contributor: Stacey Day (47333636)
Died in a motor vehicle - train accident the day before he was to be married to Donna Pace. He was a truck driver for Lehi Dairy.
Deseret News - Saturday Evening, January 10, 1948
Crossing Crash Claims Second in Family
LEHI - Murdin Clements, 20, son of Mrs. Emma Clements, killed yesterday when a Diesel-powered train collided with his truck at the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's main line crossing south of the sugar factory here, was the second member of the family killed at the same crossing.
Twenty years ago his uncle was killed and his father was severely injured in a motor vehicle-train accident at the same crossing. The uncle was Steve Clements, and the father was Eric LeRoy Clements, who has since died.
To Have Been Wed
The young man was to have married Donna Marie Pace tonight. The ceremony was to have been conducted in the Lehi Second Ward chapel with Bishop Cecil L. Ash officiating.
Miss Pace is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Pace and her fiancé was employed by her father and was making his regular rounds with the dairy truck when the fatal collision occurred.
The accident was the second train-car crash to occur in Lehi in slightly more than two weeks. Jack Zimmerman, 16, Lehi was killed Dec. 23 when a train struck his car near the D&RG Railroad station there.
The engineer of the 33-car freight train, R. A. Hales, Salt Lake City, told officers he saw the truck approaching but evidently Clements failed to see the train in the heavy fog.
Train Going 45 MPH
Hales said the train was going 45 miles an hour and the speed of the truck was estimated at about 10 miles per hour. Clements himself was thrown 114 feet down the track but parts of the truck were carried nearly two-thirds of a mile before the locomotive was able to stop. Clements body was found 21 feet east of the track.
Train crew members included Mr. Hales; U Yetter, 404 Post St.; E. T Wilson, 176 Coatsville Ave.; B. E. Pope, 2076 Vermon Ave., Salt Lake City, and J. L. Brown, 299 Second Ave., Midvale.
Mr. Clements was born May 24, 1927, in American Fork, a son of Eric LeRoy and Emma Culmer Clements. He was a graduate of Lehi High School and had lived in this area all his life.
Surviving are his mother; three brothers, Kenneth Clements, Pleasant Grove, and LaVell and Ronald Clements, American Fork; two sisters, Opal and Sally Clements, American Fork; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. [Edward Amos] Clements, American Fork.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wing Mortuary, Lehi.
Newspaper Article Contributor: Stacey Day (47333636)
Deseret News - Saturday Evening, January 10, 1948
Crossing Crash Claims Second in Family
LEHI - Murdin Clements, 20, son of Mrs. Emma Clements, killed yesterday when a Diesel-powered train collided with his truck at the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's main line crossing south of the sugar factory here, was the second member of the family killed at the same crossing.
Twenty years ago his uncle was killed and his father was severely injured in a motor vehicle-train accident at the same crossing. The uncle was Steve Clements, and the father was Eric LeRoy Clements, who has since died.
To Have Been Wed
The young man was to have married Donna Marie Pace tonight. The ceremony was to have been conducted in the Lehi Second Ward chapel with Bishop Cecil L. Ash officiating.
Miss Pace is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Pace and her fiancé was employed by her father and was making his regular rounds with the dairy truck when the fatal collision occurred.
The accident was the second train-car crash to occur in Lehi in slightly more than two weeks. Jack Zimmerman, 16, Lehi was killed Dec. 23 when a train struck his car near the D&RG Railroad station there.
The engineer of the 33-car freight train, R. A. Hales, Salt Lake City, told officers he saw the truck approaching but evidently Clements failed to see the train in the heavy fog.
Train Going 45 MPH
Hales said the train was going 45 miles an hour and the speed of the truck was estimated at about 10 miles per hour. Clements himself was thrown 114 feet down the track but parts of the truck were carried nearly two-thirds of a mile before the locomotive was able to stop. Clements body was found 21 feet east of the track.
Train crew members included Mr. Hales; U Yetter, 404 Post St.; E. T Wilson, 176 Coatsville Ave.; B. E. Pope, 2076 Vermon Ave., Salt Lake City, and J. L. Brown, 299 Second Ave., Midvale.
Mr. Clements was born May 24, 1927, in American Fork, a son of Eric LeRoy and Emma Culmer Clements. He was a graduate of Lehi High School and had lived in this area all his life.
Surviving are his mother; three brothers, Kenneth Clements, Pleasant Grove, and LaVell and Ronald Clements, American Fork; two sisters, Opal and Sally Clements, American Fork; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. [Edward Amos] Clements, American Fork.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wing Mortuary, Lehi.
Newspaper Article Contributor: Stacey Day (47333636)
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