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Show - 1 POLICE PROBE 'DEATH BOULEVARD' AUTO FATALITY-CAUSES FATALITY-CAUSES TO GET GLOSESCRUTIIIY Second West Street Crashes Will Be Investigated What kllli en Second Wait it rot? Is it speed, lack of adequate po-Ilea po-Ilea patrolling, poor lighting or carelessneas? What hu caused 11 traffic fatal-Itlaa fatal-Itlaa on Salt Lake City's -boulevard of death r Police Friday launched survey to determine what factor are responsible re-sponsible for fatal mishaps on that street a fun- -al preparation were being made for the eleventh persea who died there this year. "What causae these deaths?" Chief Finch asked. "Street lighting la not entirely to blame. Other street Just a well traveled and with limllar llfhtlnfinotJhow this record of death. -Why should one-third of the death occur on only three and a half mile of our MO mile of street in this city? I'd like to know what it la and I .lave issued order (or a survey to find out The chief (aid he "had a hunch" that many accident on the street could be blamed on failure of motorist mo-torist whininf Into the elty frara the Salt Lake Clty-Ofdea highway to (low down as they enter the thoroughfare. "We may install atop light at Seventh North street, or even fur ther out, to alow thia traffic," a said. Both Chief Finch and Inspector O. B. Record concurred In a ertti- - . oism by City Judge A. H. Ellett, who Thursday asserted that prowl car officer "might as well be given thelr alow police car. "It's very true," aald Inspector Record, "we have only four traffic eara and they are pretty ancient They ar good can, but not for police po-lice work." Chief Finch admitted that poor lighting on Second . West street la not entirely to blame for accident there. But In answer to a criticism of Ralph A. Badger, president at the Apartment House Manager Association As-sociation of Utah, that proposed lighting Improvement are a "pa la In the neck" to taxpayera, queried, "Why do most of our traffic death occur at Bight?" He also pointed out that since another an-other death trap. State street between be-tween Twenty-f irst South street and the Murray city limit, ha beea well lighted not a single fatality ha occurred fherevaad that a serious accident have occurred on safety Island la ths business district alnc they have been floodlighted. |