This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#268538) David Walker <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=268538> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 3/2/2010 at 21:29:20 Surnames: WALKER DAVID WALKER (Picture of wreckage with the following caption: Parts of the car driven by David Walker, Wapello rural, are scattered around a pasture after the early Sunday morning crash near Mediapolis in which Walker was killed. Highway patrol officers discovered the body about five hours after the crash while responding to a call concerning cattle in the road.) Wapello Man Dies in Crash Mediapolis A high speed crash on a gravel road two miles east of her resulted in the death of a rural Wapello man early Sunday morning. David K. Walker, 20, was dead at the scene when authorities responded to a call concerning cattle in the road. Highway patrolmen Larry Knock and Tom Falls found the body after going through a hole in the fence the car had crashed through. Cattle had escaped through the hole and were blocking the road. Des Moines county sheriff Bob Glick said the officers discovered the body about ten feet from the frame of the car that was at the bottom of a steep embankment. The engine of the car was 20 feet from the frame; the autos body has separated and was ten feet in another direction. Glick said refuse from the crash was scattered for about 300 square feet. The late model Chevelle left the road at a high rate of speed sometime after 4 a.m. Sunday, Glick said. The car went down a steep embankment, tore out a small tree and took out a couple of fence posts. The car and body were discovered about 9 a.m. Because of junk near the road in that area, the wrecked car didnt look out of place, Glick said. There must have been just a fantastic impact, Glick said. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten date of July 24, 1977