MONMOUTH - A Roseville father of five children and a New Boston college student were killed at 3:13 yesterday afternoon in a head-on collision of a car and pickup truck on U.S. 67, five miles north of Monmouth.
Dead are Keith T. Davis, 49, of Roseville, driver of the truck, who was pronounced dead at the scene, and Larry B. Nelson, 18, of New Boston, who was dead on arrival at Monmouth Community Memorial Hospital.
They raised to six the number of Warren County traffic fatalities this year.
State police said the Davis truck was southbound and Nelson was going north when the two vehicles collided in the northbound lane of traffic on a curve marked for no passing in either direction.
The Davis truck had swerved into the wrong lane and police said skid marks showed the Nelson youth had applied his brakes at about the point where the approaching vehicle in his lane would have become visible.
After the collision the truck caught on fire and Davis, trapped in the cab, was burned. Nelson's auto did not catch on fire.
Nelson was a student at Western Illinois University, Macomb, and Davis was a farmer and earth moving contractor.
The president of the Warren County Soil & Water Conservation District Board, he recently began the Davis Land Improvement Co. and was returning from a job site when the accident occurred.
A coroner's jury was impaneled late yesterday and an inquest will be conducted by Coroner William Hoover.
Funeral services for the Nelson youth will be at 2 Sunday afternoon at the Reiser Funeral Home in Aledo with the Rev. David Eadie, pastor of the Joy United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in the Aledo Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 tonight until time of services.
Nelson was born Aug. 3, 1955, in Aledo, a son of Herbert and Phyllis Giles Nelson.
He was graduated from Westmer High School last spring where he had been active in the band and named as an Illinois State Scholar and was listed in the Who's Who in American High Schools. He was a freshman at Western Illinois University, Macomb.
Surviving are his parents, of rural New Boston; two sisters, Mrs. Don Riddell of Aledo and Pam Kay at home; and maternal grandfather, Williard Giles of Joy.
He was preceded in death by the paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother.
(Rock Island Argus - October 6, 1973)
Dead are Keith T. Davis, 49, of Roseville, driver of the truck, who was pronounced dead at the scene, and Larry B. Nelson, 18, of New Boston, who was dead on arrival at Monmouth Community Memorial Hospital.
They raised to six the number of Warren County traffic fatalities this year.
State police said the Davis truck was southbound and Nelson was going north when the two vehicles collided in the northbound lane of traffic on a curve marked for no passing in either direction.
The Davis truck had swerved into the wrong lane and police said skid marks showed the Nelson youth had applied his brakes at about the point where the approaching vehicle in his lane would have become visible.
After the collision the truck caught on fire and Davis, trapped in the cab, was burned. Nelson's auto did not catch on fire.
Nelson was a student at Western Illinois University, Macomb, and Davis was a farmer and earth moving contractor.
The president of the Warren County Soil & Water Conservation District Board, he recently began the Davis Land Improvement Co. and was returning from a job site when the accident occurred.
A coroner's jury was impaneled late yesterday and an inquest will be conducted by Coroner William Hoover.
Funeral services for the Nelson youth will be at 2 Sunday afternoon at the Reiser Funeral Home in Aledo with the Rev. David Eadie, pastor of the Joy United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in the Aledo Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 tonight until time of services.
Nelson was born Aug. 3, 1955, in Aledo, a son of Herbert and Phyllis Giles Nelson.
He was graduated from Westmer High School last spring where he had been active in the band and named as an Illinois State Scholar and was listed in the Who's Who in American High Schools. He was a freshman at Western Illinois University, Macomb.
Surviving are his parents, of rural New Boston; two sisters, Mrs. Don Riddell of Aledo and Pam Kay at home; and maternal grandfather, Williard Giles of Joy.
He was preceded in death by the paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother.
(Rock Island Argus - October 6, 1973)
MONMOUTH - A Roseville father of five children and a New Boston college student were killed at 3:13 yesterday afternoon in a head-on collision of a car and pickup truck on U.S. 67, five miles north of Monmouth.
Dead are Keith T. Davis, 49, of Roseville, driver of the truck, who was pronounced dead at the scene, and Larry B. Nelson, 18, of New Boston, who was dead on arrival at Monmouth Community Memorial Hospital.
They raised to six the number of Warren County traffic fatalities this year.
State police said the Davis truck was southbound and Nelson was going north when the two vehicles collided in the northbound lane of traffic on a curve marked for no passing in either direction.
The Davis truck had swerved into the wrong lane and police said skid marks showed the Nelson youth had applied his brakes at about the point where the approaching vehicle in his lane would have become visible.
After the collision the truck caught on fire and Davis, trapped in the cab, was burned. Nelson's auto did not catch on fire.
Nelson was a student at Western Illinois University, Macomb, and Davis was a farmer and earth moving contractor.
The president of the Warren County Soil & Water Conservation District Board, he recently began the Davis Land Improvement Co. and was returning from a job site when the accident occurred.
A coroner's jury was impaneled late yesterday and an inquest will be conducted by Coroner William Hoover.
Funeral services for the Nelson youth will be at 2 Sunday afternoon at the Reiser Funeral Home in Aledo with the Rev. David Eadie, pastor of the Joy United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in the Aledo Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 tonight until time of services.
Nelson was born Aug. 3, 1955, in Aledo, a son of Herbert and Phyllis Giles Nelson.
He was graduated from Westmer High School last spring where he had been active in the band and named as an Illinois State Scholar and was listed in the Who's Who in American High Schools. He was a freshman at Western Illinois University, Macomb.
Surviving are his parents, of rural New Boston; two sisters, Mrs. Don Riddell of Aledo and Pam Kay at home; and maternal grandfather, Williard Giles of Joy.
He was preceded in death by the paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother.
(Rock Island Argus - October 6, 1973)
Dead are Keith T. Davis, 49, of Roseville, driver of the truck, who was pronounced dead at the scene, and Larry B. Nelson, 18, of New Boston, who was dead on arrival at Monmouth Community Memorial Hospital.
They raised to six the number of Warren County traffic fatalities this year.
State police said the Davis truck was southbound and Nelson was going north when the two vehicles collided in the northbound lane of traffic on a curve marked for no passing in either direction.
The Davis truck had swerved into the wrong lane and police said skid marks showed the Nelson youth had applied his brakes at about the point where the approaching vehicle in his lane would have become visible.
After the collision the truck caught on fire and Davis, trapped in the cab, was burned. Nelson's auto did not catch on fire.
Nelson was a student at Western Illinois University, Macomb, and Davis was a farmer and earth moving contractor.
The president of the Warren County Soil & Water Conservation District Board, he recently began the Davis Land Improvement Co. and was returning from a job site when the accident occurred.
A coroner's jury was impaneled late yesterday and an inquest will be conducted by Coroner William Hoover.
Funeral services for the Nelson youth will be at 2 Sunday afternoon at the Reiser Funeral Home in Aledo with the Rev. David Eadie, pastor of the Joy United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in the Aledo Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 tonight until time of services.
Nelson was born Aug. 3, 1955, in Aledo, a son of Herbert and Phyllis Giles Nelson.
He was graduated from Westmer High School last spring where he had been active in the band and named as an Illinois State Scholar and was listed in the Who's Who in American High Schools. He was a freshman at Western Illinois University, Macomb.
Surviving are his parents, of rural New Boston; two sisters, Mrs. Don Riddell of Aledo and Pam Kay at home; and maternal grandfather, Williard Giles of Joy.
He was preceded in death by the paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother.
(Rock Island Argus - October 6, 1973)
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