HEAD-ON CRASH
TAKES LIFE OF CITY RESIDENT
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Traffic accidents in San Bernardino county last night claimed two lives and injured four persons, three seriously. Dead are: Fred R. Pirl, 26 of 1216 Sepulveda Ave., San Bernardino. Pirl, employee of the Union Oil Co. and former San Bernardino Senior High School football player, was fatally injured and the three Ontario residents hurt when two cars collided head-on Valley Boulevard, one mile west of Colton at 5:45 p.m. Pirl died in the ambulance en route to the hospital. A skull fracture was apparently the cause of death, reported Coroner R. E. Williams. Williams said Pirl, eastbound, apparently swerved suddenly into the path of the westbound Lopez automobile. A witness, J. H. Hawley of El Centro, who was following Lopez, said the Pirl car swerved "like something must have happened to it," the coroner said. The body was removed to the I. M. Knopenyder & Sons mortuary in Colton, where an inquest is pending. The young man is survived by his wife, Naomi; two sisters, Wilda Pirl of Pomona and Mrs. Virginia McKinney of Chino, and his father, C. W. Pirl of Akron, Ohio. Investigating were Capt. Frank J. Freeman and Officers Charles Castle, Leo M. Coombe and Dale Pence of the highway patrol and Office Ray Bush of the Colton police department.
San Bernardino Daily Sun, Sunday, December 27, 1940.
TAKES LIFE OF CITY RESIDENT
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Traffic accidents in San Bernardino county last night claimed two lives and injured four persons, three seriously. Dead are: Fred R. Pirl, 26 of 1216 Sepulveda Ave., San Bernardino. Pirl, employee of the Union Oil Co. and former San Bernardino Senior High School football player, was fatally injured and the three Ontario residents hurt when two cars collided head-on Valley Boulevard, one mile west of Colton at 5:45 p.m. Pirl died in the ambulance en route to the hospital. A skull fracture was apparently the cause of death, reported Coroner R. E. Williams. Williams said Pirl, eastbound, apparently swerved suddenly into the path of the westbound Lopez automobile. A witness, J. H. Hawley of El Centro, who was following Lopez, said the Pirl car swerved "like something must have happened to it," the coroner said. The body was removed to the I. M. Knopenyder & Sons mortuary in Colton, where an inquest is pending. The young man is survived by his wife, Naomi; two sisters, Wilda Pirl of Pomona and Mrs. Virginia McKinney of Chino, and his father, C. W. Pirl of Akron, Ohio. Investigating were Capt. Frank J. Freeman and Officers Charles Castle, Leo M. Coombe and Dale Pence of the highway patrol and Office Ray Bush of the Colton police department.
San Bernardino Daily Sun, Sunday, December 27, 1940.
HEAD-ON CRASH
TAKES LIFE OF CITY RESIDENT
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Traffic accidents in San Bernardino county last night claimed two lives and injured four persons, three seriously. Dead are: Fred R. Pirl, 26 of 1216 Sepulveda Ave., San Bernardino. Pirl, employee of the Union Oil Co. and former San Bernardino Senior High School football player, was fatally injured and the three Ontario residents hurt when two cars collided head-on Valley Boulevard, one mile west of Colton at 5:45 p.m. Pirl died in the ambulance en route to the hospital. A skull fracture was apparently the cause of death, reported Coroner R. E. Williams. Williams said Pirl, eastbound, apparently swerved suddenly into the path of the westbound Lopez automobile. A witness, J. H. Hawley of El Centro, who was following Lopez, said the Pirl car swerved "like something must have happened to it," the coroner said. The body was removed to the I. M. Knopenyder & Sons mortuary in Colton, where an inquest is pending. The young man is survived by his wife, Naomi; two sisters, Wilda Pirl of Pomona and Mrs. Virginia McKinney of Chino, and his father, C. W. Pirl of Akron, Ohio. Investigating were Capt. Frank J. Freeman and Officers Charles Castle, Leo M. Coombe and Dale Pence of the highway patrol and Office Ray Bush of the Colton police department.
San Bernardino Daily Sun, Sunday, December 27, 1940.
TAKES LIFE OF CITY RESIDENT
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Traffic accidents in San Bernardino county last night claimed two lives and injured four persons, three seriously. Dead are: Fred R. Pirl, 26 of 1216 Sepulveda Ave., San Bernardino. Pirl, employee of the Union Oil Co. and former San Bernardino Senior High School football player, was fatally injured and the three Ontario residents hurt when two cars collided head-on Valley Boulevard, one mile west of Colton at 5:45 p.m. Pirl died in the ambulance en route to the hospital. A skull fracture was apparently the cause of death, reported Coroner R. E. Williams. Williams said Pirl, eastbound, apparently swerved suddenly into the path of the westbound Lopez automobile. A witness, J. H. Hawley of El Centro, who was following Lopez, said the Pirl car swerved "like something must have happened to it," the coroner said. The body was removed to the I. M. Knopenyder & Sons mortuary in Colton, where an inquest is pending. The young man is survived by his wife, Naomi; two sisters, Wilda Pirl of Pomona and Mrs. Virginia McKinney of Chino, and his father, C. W. Pirl of Akron, Ohio. Investigating were Capt. Frank J. Freeman and Officers Charles Castle, Leo M. Coombe and Dale Pence of the highway patrol and Office Ray Bush of the Colton police department.
San Bernardino Daily Sun, Sunday, December 27, 1940.
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