The car was demolished.
Officials at A. R. Gould Memorial Hospital said the condition of Arthur McCausland, about 23, Masardis, was serious, and reported the condition of a second victim tentatively identified by police as Harold Lanard, Washburn, as satisfactory.
State police reported that they were investigating to determine who drove the two-door sedan the hospitalized men rode in, noting that at about 3 a.m., the southbound auto failed to make a sharp curve near the Ashland town line and just before the Squapan bridge. Police said the auto missed the bridge, jumped the stream, bounced when it hit the far bank and landed upside down in a wooden area.
Investigating officials said McCausland was pinned beneath the car, and a hospital spokesman said later he had been unable to learn from an attending physician the extent of McCausland's injuries. McCausland's companion was said to be in his early 20's and was suffering from a back injury.
State Trooper Frederick N. Crocker investigated.
[July 18, 1969]