Tom Arvin Williams, 18, was killed and two companions, James E. Hunzeker and Gary Danks, both 16, were injured when the car in which they were riding went out of control about 1 p.m., Sunday, and plunged over an embankment at an Interstate Highway 15 exit near McCammon. An apparent brake failure caused the 1954 model car owned by Hunzeker but driven by Williams, to shoot across Merrill Road and over a 30-foot embankment, officers reported. It traveled about 40 feet before nosing into the ground. The youth died from head and chest injuries. The Danks youth, sitting on the outside of the front seat, was thrown through the window. The two survivors were taken to the Bannock County Memorial Hospital. Danks' condition was fair; and reported doing well from having suffered severe head lacerations, cuts and abrasions and a fractured heel. Hunzeker, brought to the Bear Lake Memorial Hospital Monday, had a fractured left arm, cuts and abrasions. His condition was "good" Wednesday. Danks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Danks, and Hunzeker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Hunzeker, are both sophomores at Montpelier High School.

The boys had attended basketball games at American Falls, remained overnight Saturday, at Pocatello, and were en route home when the accident happened. A fourth student, Roger Jacobson, had gone to American Falls in the Hunseker car but returned in a school bus. Tom Arvin Williams was born September 13, 1946 in Montpelier to Don E. and Jane Williams. He had also lived in Ogden, in New Mexico and in Soda Springs before returning to Montpelier where he was a junior at Montpelier High School. He was a member of the LDS Church. Surviving are his mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McCracken; a brother, Gerald Williams; a sister, Mary Williams; a half-brother, Ted McCracken; and Mrs. Otto Enssell, a grandmother, all of Mont-pelier. Services were held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, in the Montpelier LDS Third-Fifth Ward Chapel. Interment was in the Leberty cemetery under direction of Matthews Mortuary.