UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR MEN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

ment was the steepeste

All this time there was no one we evineed the slightest tendency to
make any effort to direct traffic or get the injured people started to towne
There were six people in the wrecked car and two of them were out only slight-
ly and the rest were plainly suffering from shcoke The ocoupants of the car
included the little boy, his mother and father ‘ind sister (four years old),
and tow ladiese

The car had skidded on the slick pavement and overturned and rolled
over twicee in natok occurred only about five minutes before I'slid'
into the scene, but in that time Vives otine cars had happened along and
were mixed up in the general confusion by being stalled in various positions
on the roade

While I was watching this latest arrival slide over the embankment,
a large tractor-trailer transport truck came over the hille I lkmew if that
tried to stop and his wheels slid, the Atrailer section would jack-knife and
wipe everyone off that highway for suree So I grabbed a flashlight and ran
towards him blikking it off and one He fortunately was alert enough to get
his ‘truck stopped a couple of hundred yards away from the scene. ,

As TI had sort of automatically taken over the situation, I felt as if
I had to go through with it. ‘So I immediately sent two men to the top of each
hill and gave them instructions to stop every car that happened along and keep
them there until I gave them a signal to let the cars by, one at a timee

Then I had all of the people who were in the wrecked car placed in two

of the stalled cars which we had straightened up, and started them into Tu-