Motorcycle Deaths Still Being Probed July 27, 1970

CORNICK, LAUE , WOODSMALL

Posted By: deb (email)
Date: 1/23/2008 at 19:41:41

The Burlington Hawkeye, Monday, July 27, 1970, page 1

Motorcycle Deaths Still Being Probed

Highway patrol officers are continuing to investigate a Saturday accident which claimed the lives of two persons at the south edge of Kingston.

Killed in the car-motorcycle collision were Ronald Charles Cornick, 27, Mediapolis, Rt.1, and Celia Marie Laue, 14, 2124 Ridge Row.

(Obituaries on page 8)

Driver of the auto was Raymond A. Woodsmall, 48, Wapello, Rt.1, who was taken to the Burlington police station for question following the mishap.

No Charge

While officers indicated immediately after the accident that Woodsmall would be charged with operatinga motor vehicle while intoxicated, further investigation revealed there was insufficient evidence to warrant filing of such a charge.

Cornick was operating the motorcycle, Miss Laue, his sister-in-law, was a passenger.

According to highway patrolmen, there was no evidence at the scene to indicate which vehicle was in the wrong lane of traffic.

The deaths were the seventh and eighth within the county this year. At this time last year four fatalities had been recorded.

During 1969, a total of 10 persons died in road accidents in Des Moines county.