Death: Feb. 15, 1971
Des Moines
Polk County
Iowa, USA [Edit Dates]
Carbon monoxide
fumes from a defective
car exhaust claimed the lives
of three teenagers here Sunday
and a renewed call for a state
motor vehicle inspection law has
followed in the wake of the
tragedy.
The teenagers, all of Des
Moines, were overcome by the
fumes at a Des Moines drive-in
in a car whose deadly fumes
killed three other persons last
November.
The latest victims were
Gregory Fetters, 17, Pamela
Sue Barnes, 18, and Roxanne
Linn Harmson, IS. The owner
of the car, Robert Schnathonst,
16, also of Des Moines,
was in serious condition at
a hospital.
"I think they had better get
rid of that thing" said Mrs.
R. M. Warden of Des Moines in
reference to the "beat-up" 1961
Ford, which police detective Lt.
rlay Steiner termed "an old
junker."
Daughter Died
Mrs. Warden's daughter and
granddaughter died in the November
accident and her 17-
year-old son Lloyd sold the car
o Schnathoust for $100.
"I told him that the exhaust
system needed to be fixed,"
said young Warden: He said
Schnathoust worked on the
car himself.
Warden bought the car from
lis brother-in-law, William Tiedtte.
Tiedkte's wife, Janet, 26,
her two-year-old daughter Donna,
and William Leslie Mitchell,
«, all of Des Moines, were
ound by a passing hunter last
November in the car parked
along a Dallas county road near
Vaukee, some 11 miles west of
)es Moines.
Iowa presently does not have
a motor vehicle inspection law
and the only safety checks are
made at random by hjghway
patrol officers, according to
State Safety Commissioner Jack
Fulton.
Inspection Laws would have prevented this from happening
Death: Feb. 15, 1971
Des Moines
Polk County
Iowa, USA [Edit Dates]
Carbon monoxide
fumes from a defective
car exhaust claimed the lives
of three teenagers here Sunday
and a renewed call for a state
motor vehicle inspection law has
followed in the wake of the
tragedy.
The teenagers, all of Des
Moines, were overcome by the
fumes at a Des Moines drive-in
in a car whose deadly fumes
killed three other persons last
November.
The latest victims were
Gregory Fetters, 17, Pamela
Sue Barnes, 18, and Roxanne
Linn Harmson, IS. The owner
of the car, Robert Schnathonst,
16, also of Des Moines,
was in serious condition at
a hospital.
"I think they had better get
rid of that thing" said Mrs.
R. M. Warden of Des Moines in
reference to the "beat-up" 1961
Ford, which police detective Lt.
rlay Steiner termed "an old
junker."
Daughter Died
Mrs. Warden's daughter and
granddaughter died in the November
accident and her 17-
year-old son Lloyd sold the car
o Schnathoust for $100.
"I told him that the exhaust
system needed to be fixed,"
said young Warden: He said
Schnathoust worked on the
car himself.
Warden bought the car from
lis brother-in-law, William Tiedtte.
Tiedkte's wife, Janet, 26,
her two-year-old daughter Donna,
and William Leslie Mitchell,
«, all of Des Moines, were
ound by a passing hunter last
November in the car parked
along a Dallas county road near
Vaukee, some 11 miles west of
)es Moines.
Iowa presently does not have
a motor vehicle inspection law
and the only safety checks are
made at random by hjghway
patrol officers, according to
State Safety Commissioner Jack
Fulton.
Inspection Laws would have prevented this from happening
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