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he Evening Standard, (Uniontown, PA)
Wednesday, September 3, 1958
Woman Dies After Truck Hits Buggy

Funeral services will be held Friday for an aged Connellsville area woman who died yesterday afternoon as the result of injuries suffered in a highway accident earlier in the day. Myrtle Firestone of Connellsville R. D. 2 died in Connellsville Hospital at 4:30 p.m. as the result of injuries suffered shortly before 10 a.m. when her horse and buggy was involved in an accident on the Breakneck Rd., just north of Connellsville.

State Police said the victim had her carriage parked to the side of the highway and was moving onto the roadway when a pickup truck driven by John Denvir of Connellsville R. D. 1 attempted to pass. Troopers said the horse suddenly bolted, throwing the woman to the highway. The animal ran away from the scene.

South Connellsville firemen rushed the Firestone woman to the hospital and her right leg was amputated. The left leg was fractured as was a hip. She became the 30th fatality on Fayette County highways this year.

The victim is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Emma Nicholson of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Pearl Calhoun of Connellsville, and a brother, Grant Firestone, also of Connellsville. Friends are being received in the Brooks Funeral Home, Connellsville, where services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment will follow in Richhill Cemetery.

The Morning Herald, (Uniontown, PA)
Wednesday, September 3, 1958

An elderly Connellsville R.D. 2 woman was fatally injured when her horse and buggy was struck by a pickup truck on Breakneck Rd., north of Connellsville late yesterday morning. The victim, identified as Myrtle Firestone. 76, was pronounced dead in Connellsville Hospital at 4:30 p. m., more than six hours after the tragic mishap. Hospital attaches said the woman was admitted at 10 a m., in critical condition with multiple leg and hip injuries. Her right leg was amputated in the hospital. State police said the victim was driving a horse and buggy on the rural highway when the pickup truck, driven by John Denvir, Connellsville R.D. 1, attempted, to pass. The body was taken to the Brooks Funeral Home, Connellsville. Arrangements will be announced later. The fatality was the 30th on Fayette. County roads and highways in 1958.