Mrs. Rosa Lee Bullock Slagle, 39, wife of Cecil Slagle and an employee of the American Bemberg Corporation, who was struck on the Bristol Highway by a local bus Saturday about 10:30 p.m., died of the injuries she suffered at an Elizabethton hospital Monday at 6:20 a.m. Mrs. Slagle was trying to catch the bus to go to her work on the 11 o'clock shift at Bemberg. Passengers on the bus said she ran from behind the hedge in the blinding fall [sic] snow across the highway and that the driver, Orville Godfrey, who lives in Johnson City, swerved the bus off the road which was covered by a treacherous thick coat of ice, in a desperate effort to avoid hitting her. Driver Godfrey, who suffered a fractured knee cap in the tragic accident, was completely unnerved, passengers said. 'One foot more and I would have missed her,' the driver was reported to have exclaimed. Mrs. Slagle was a regular passenger on the bus schedule and Mr. Godfrey knew her well. No passenger was injured. The fatality was the first death from a motor traffic accident in Carter County since New Year's Day. Sheriff Tola Nave, who investigated, said this morning that no charge of technical manslaughter had been placed against Mr. Godfrey since in his opinion the fatal mishap was undoubtedly an accident, The accident happened in Bullock's Hollow about a mile this side of the Carter-Sullivan Counties line, near the home of Mrs. Slagle. Funeral arrangements are incomplete, but the body will be returned to the home in Bullock's Hollow this afternoon by the Roy Hathaway funeral home. Mrs Slagle is survived by her husband, one son, Jack, and her mother, Mrs. Roda [sic] Bullock, all of Bullock's Hollow, six uncles and six aunts and a number of first cousins. ELIZABETHTON (Tenn.) STAR, 2 Feb. 1948, p. 1.

Injured Sat 31 Jan; Died Mon 2 Feb; grave marker has death date of 31 Jan; FAG death date 2 Feb by newspaper article