Progress Bulletin, Sunday May 7, 1972

Woman Dies as Car Falls in White Ave. Constructionn Ditch

A 20-year-old woman was killed and her passenger slightly injured when her car plunged into a Metropolitan Water District construction ditch early Saturday afternoon. 

Police say Laura Jean Hesselgrave was proceeding southbound on White Avenue when she went through a detour sign and struck a dirt embankment near Chester Street four blocks north of Holt Avenue. The car went over the embankment and landed upside down in a ditch.

Thomas A Clayton, the passenger, was treated at Pomona Valley Hospital for minor injuries and released.

Police withheld the address of both Miss Hesselgrave and Clayton.

Born March, 1952

Deceased May 6, 1972