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Two more die from injuries in Layton highway crash

Tue, Nov 5, 2002

By LINDA TOBLER
Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

LAYTON -- Police continue to investigate the cause of an accident on U.S. 89 Friday that has now claimed three lives.

Two more people died from injuries sustained in the two-car accident near 1975 North and U.S. 89 that caused the highway to be shut down for several hours Friday afternoon.

Robert Oxborrow, 72, Mapleton, died at the scene. Edith Reid, 90, Nevada, and Sally Meservy, 47, West Jordan, were flown from the site of the accident and later died of their injuries.

Accident victim Bobbie Oxborrow-Lott, 49, Springville, is in serious condition at McKay-Dee Hospital, and Sarah Oxborrow, 69, Mapleton, was released from McKay-Dee Monday.

All five were in a white Buick Century that was hit nearly head-on in an outside lane by a Chevrolet Lumina driven by William Woolf, 66, West Jordan. Woolf was not seriously injured.

Police are still not sure why Woolf"s vehicle crossed from northbound lanes and veered across three lanes into the outermost lane of southbound traffic.

After the accident Woolf was seen by emergency personnel at Ogden Regional but was not admitted.

"The driver said he wasn"t talking on his cell phone or shuffling papers. It is still unclear why he veered into oncoming traffic," said Layton Police Lt. Quinn Moyes.

Blood samples of Woolf were also taken.