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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock Neva Staff Writer
Despite the searing heat Monday, nine-year-old Shaumbay Lynn Fuller Gatewood wanted to play outside.
So she ran out the door of the family’s home in Gid Brown Hollow, ignoring her grandmother’s plea to stay inside the cool house. She wanted to be outside, where Sherman Slaughter and Sandy Hart were replacing the muffler on a car in the yard.
The two men had jacked up the car to work underneath it, with Mr. Hart holding the muffler in place as Mr. Slaughter tightened the bolts. Suddenly the jack slipped and the car fell, trapping the men beneath it.
According to Vivian Gatewood, the next thing she heard was granddaughter Shaumbay running back inside, screaming that Sandy and Sherman were under the car.
“I dropped my bike and my drink and ran inside,” Shaumbay said. “I was scared. All I could see was their legs sticking out."
Mrs. Gatewood and her daughter Bonita ran outside, expecting the worst. Mr. Slaughter had managed to wriggle from beneath the car, but Mr. Hart was still trapped underneath it, his shoulder pinned by the car’s undercarriage.
“Sherman had ahold of the bumper, trying to keep the weight of the car off Sandy,” Mrs. Gatewood remembered. “We called to him, and he answered, said he’d be okay for a minute.”
The two women joined Mr. Slaughter, straining to hold the car in place. He grabbed the jack and repositioned it under the bumper, then
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