driven by one Leland McCombs, an employee of Bartlow Brothers, Inc.
The collision occurred at approximately 5:15 o'clock P.M., on Illinois State Highway No. 61, a short distance west of Big Neck, in Adams County, Illinois. Stella Boyles was driving and as passengers for hire, Ruth Mildred Brown and Velma Faye Brown were riding with her, going from their place of employment, Dennis Chicken Products Company, at Augusta, Illinois, to their homes near Mendon, Illinois. From their positions after the accident, it appears that Ruth Mildred Brown was riding in the left rear seat and Velma Faye Brown in the right rear seat. The Boyles car was traveling west and the truck driven by McCombs was traveling east on the highway, an 18 foot *116 wide concrete slab. Thevisibility was in the twilight zone, half dusky, and it was snowing. The highway was snow covered and slippery. For some distance both east and west of the point of collision the highway was level and straight, so that both Mrs. Boyles and McCombs could see the other approaching. From the testimony of one witness, Jack Chinn, who was traveling behind the McCombs truck, but who did not see the actual collision, both the Boyles car and the truck had their lights on. In the collision Mrs. Boyles, the driver of the car, and Mrs. Gay Brown and Mrs. Walter Brown were killed.
Other than McCombs and the three women who were killed, no one actually saw the accident. The witness Chinn was following the McCombs truck at a