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GAZETTE PHOTO BY DAN TUCKER EMERGENCY RESPONSE PERSONNEL ATTEND TO ATTA HESS, 53, OF COULTERVILLE ON MONDAY AFTERNOON AFTER THE JEEP SHE WAS DRIVING SLAMMED INTO A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY GEORGE HEISS, 64, OR MIDPINES. ACCORDING TO THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL, HEISS AND HESS WERE BOTH TRAVELING NORTHBOUND ON HIGHWAY 49 WHEN HEISS SLOWED, APPARENTLY TO MAKE A LEFT HAND TURN. HESS WAS TRANSPORTED TO JOHN C. FREMONT HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT OF A POSSIBLY FRACTURED RIGHT ANKLE. ONE OF THE HEISS VEHICLE PASSENGERS, JOYCE EADS, 81, OF MARIPOSA WAS TRANSPORTED FOR NECK PAIN AND LACERATIONS TO HER ARM. THE OTHER PASSENGER, ACE EADS, 81, ALSO OF MARIPOSA, AND HEISS, WERE BOTH UNINJURED. 011p1.jpg


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