The Sidney Herald

Two Hurt When Car Leaves Road

Two Fairview residents, Paul Emil Salsbury, 42, and Clifford F. Hansen, 52, were injured in a car accident about 4:00 p.m. Sunday, when their car went out of control and left highway 23 North, about two miles south of Fairview, as they were en route to Sidney.

The car, according to Highway Patrolman James Fischer who investigated the accident, was traveling at excessive speed, when it began zigsagging from left to right, and went off the left hand side of the highway into the borrow pit. The investigation showed the car to be out of control for a distance of 1020 feet before it again left the highway on the left hand side, flipped completely over twice, and came to rest in a potato field 75 feet off the highway, and facing in the opposite direction to which it had been travelling. As the car left the road, the right front door flew open, but Hansen managed to close it again, and both front doors remained closed, preventing both men from being thrown out. Hansen received a broken collar bone, and head bruises. Salsbury, a carpenter for the Great Northern R. R. and the driver, suffered bruises and abrasions, and several cuts on his right hand. Both were hospitalized at the Sidney Hospital. The car, a 1956 Olds 4-door sedan was a complete loss.