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Show ends in tragedy as a child dashes out suddenly from behind be-hind a bus and is struck by a car which failed to stop. In marked school zones, speed is limited to 20 miles an hour during hours when children are present. The same is true of school crossings. cross-ings. ' Last year there were 548 auto-pedestrian accidents in Utah, a large proportion of them involving school children. chil-dren. Many of these tragedies resulted in snuffing out the life of the child. The Council stressed the fact that children are unpredictable unpre-dictable and often irresponsible irrespons-ible simply because they are children. This imposes an even ev-en stronger burden upon motorists mo-torists to be extra cautious when driving in areas where children are playing or apt to cross the street to or from school. Please, Mr. and Mrs. Motorist, Mo-torist, be careful! Drivers Urged To Use Caution As Schools Re-open Next week will see public schools back in session throughout Utah.' Streets and crosswalks around and leading lead-ing to schools will again be busy areas. The next few weeks will be especially hazardous for both the motorist and the youngsters young-sters as everyone re-adjusts to the special traffic and pedestrian ped-estrian patterns 'created by school schedules. ' The Utah Safety Council pointed out " today that All traffic must stop for school buses when the flashing red lights on the buses are in operation. op-eration. This includes both the) traffic behind ; and . the Jiafj2aPProaching the bus, except for oncoming traffic on divided highways. The reason behind this law is obvious. Children are hurrying hur-rying either to get on the bus or to get out and play after a day of classes, and they often of-ten forget about trafic. This is especially true when they know that traffic is expected to stop for the flashing lights on their bus. Each year complaints pour in to local law enforcement offices about motorists who fail to stop. Usually this is just a dangerous violation of the law, but far too often it |