UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR MEN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

A couple of hours after we left Albuquerque, darkness started setting
ine It had been cloudy all dey, and so night came earlier than usuale

Along this part of the highway (between Albuquerque and Tucumcara, New
Mexico) is pretty flate But about ten miles from Tucumeara (West) there are
a few small hills and valleys that the highwey dips intoe

At one of these valleys the highwey slopes dow a very gente slope to
the floor of the valley seit then rises again to pass on over the brow of the
hili and so onto Tucumearae This particular valley is only six miles from
the towne Right where the highway levels off on the floor of the valley,
there a. a very mild curvee In fact it &s so small a turn that in dry wea-
ther one would not even be conscious of ite

_ As I topped the hill on the western edge of the valley and started down

the slope, I noticed some headlights down at this curvee At this time it
was about 6:00 PeMe I did not pay any particular attention to the lights
as I supposed they were parked on the side of the road. I was traveling
about twenty-eight miles an hour due to the car gathering momentum down-.
hille When I was about a hundred and fifty yards away from the cars, I
noticed people standing around on the highwaye

They started flashing lights and waving at me and running aroud on the
roade I started stopping the car, but the doy pavement did not give me ex
nough traction to stope I had to whip the car over to the edge of the high
way in order to miss the peoplee The oar skidded and edged over the side of

the embankment. Luckily the bank was only a few feet high at this point and