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Arizona Daily Wildcat September 22, 1997
4 car collision slows traffic
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Ian Mayer
Sharon Morgan's four-door Honda sedan is left crushed after being hit by a construction truck on the West side of Park Ave. on Speedway. Four cars were involved in the accident with the sedan- a truck, a school bus and a Chevrolet suburban.
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A Tucson woman can be thankful she was wearing a seatbelt after the car she was driving was crushed in a 2 p.m. four-vehicle collision that snarled traffic north of campus Friday, authorities said.
Sharon Morgan, age unavailable, was driving a four-door Honda sedan westbound on East Speedway Boulevard just west of North Park Avenue when a construction truck's brakes failed, Tucson police officer Danny Mejia said.
The ensuing collision caught her car between the truck, a school bus and a Chevrolet Suburban, crunching much of the compact sedan but sparing the driver's seat area.
"That's the only part of the vehicle that's still intact," said Tucson fire Capt. Brian Delfs. "If she wasn't wearing a seat belt, she wouldn't have survived."
Fire crews later used the 'Jaws of Life' to cut Morgan free. She, along with three others, was taken to University Medical Center for minor injuries, Mejia said.
All were later released.
