Harvey County KS Archives News.....Banks, Arthur G. Killed in Second Fatal Highway Accident December 2, 1947
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Evening Kansan-Republican, Newton, Harvey County, Kansas, Tuesday, December 2,  1947, Vol. LXIII, No. 252 December 2, 1947
BANKS, Arthur Glenn

SECOND FATALITY WITHIN 24 HOURS

Arthur G. Banks Killed In Crash West of Burrton

Harvey County's second fatal highway accident within 24 hours Monday night 
took 
the life of Arthur G. Banks, 42-year-old Burrton oil field worker.

Banks was killed instantly shorly after 8 o'clock as he drove his automobile 
in 
front of a gasoline transport truck at the curve on highway 50S, west of 
Burrton. The truck was owned and driven by L. T. Shaffer of Great Bend.

Investigators from the sheriff's office and state highway patrolmen said Banks 
apparently had planned to continue west on the dirt road off the slab and 
misjudged the closeness of the transport as it approached him from the north 
on 
the curve. The two vehicles collided virtually head on and Banks' car was 
practically demolished, Shaffer was unhurt.

Banks' body was removed to the McFall mortuary at Burrton.

His was the fifth fatality on county highways this year.


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