This picture at the moment will serve as a Memorial to Sandy Askland who is pictured here on May 11 2015. Sandy Askland, an ASU Law Professor, died after his pickup truck clipped a cow and crashed in San Juan County, Utah. The cow was black. Sandy is a good friend and I have spent many good hours talking, discussing everything a human being can. I will miss him greatly. He was a man without pretense. He was riding in the same pickup truck that I rode in about 2002. At Aravaipa I asked Sandy how many miles he had on the truck, it 225,000 plus. "Why replace it, this one works just fine", he said. He could afford to buy a new one but the one he has was functional.

Sandy Askland, 63, was heading north on State Route 261 just before midnight Thursday, when he hit a black cow in the road. "He just clipped the cow and ran off the right side of the roadway." He over-corrected and his Ford Ranger rolled, five miles south of the highway's junction with State Route 95. This, according to a Utah Highway Patrol news release.

Askland, who was not wearing a seat-belt, was partially ejected, according to the news release. With that a piece of me died also.