NEWSPAPERS: TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS CLAIM THREE LIVES, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON

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Newspaper; The East Oregonian
Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon

Severe, Richard Don
Lavadour, Eva Williams
Le Clair, Jennifer June
Written By Virgil Rupp
Of the
The East Oregonian
April 2, 1970

Three area residents died in traffic accidents Sunday, two of them at a railroad
crossing that claimed four other lives in the same family 2½ years ago.
The victims:
Richard Don Severe, 38, Pendleton.
Eva Williams Lavadour, 51, Adams.
Jennifer June LeClair, 26, Adams.

MR. SEVERE died about 3:15 a.m. Sunday when a 1960 station wagon in which he was
a passenger went off Highway 395 a half-mile south of Ritter Junction and struck
a rocky bluff.
The driver of the car, David D. Webb, 18, of 719 SW 28th, Pendleton, has been 
transferred to Pendleton Community Hospital from the Blue Mountain Hospital, 
John Day, where he was taken by state police. His injuries apparently are minor.
Webb has been charged with driving under the influence of liquor.