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Show School Due Here F&r Investigators Of Auto Llishaps The Utah Saftey Council today announced that another series of Statewide schools for traffic accident ac-cident investigation will commence com-mence next month with 2 two-day sessions scheduled for Roosevelt October 9 and 10. Enforcement officers at county and city levels 'are expected to attend and receive training in the basic fudamentals of such investigations. investi-gations. The Council pointed out that the information developed from investigation reports is the vital key to all accident prevention preven-tion programs by the enforcement agencies, the courts, and citizen saftey organizations. Cosponsoring the schools will be the Utah Highway Patrol, State Board for Vocational Education, Utah Peace Officers Association, and the Utah Motor Club. Leon L. Lines, a member of the Enforcement En-forcement Committee of the Council Coun-cil and former director of the Financial Responsibility Division, Utah Department of Public Saftey, is directing the special school program pro-gram and is being assisted by Von H. Robertson of the State Board of Education. The Staff of instructors, instruc-tors, who have been specially trained in the field, is being drawn from the highway patrol and the police forces of Utah's major cities. ci-ties. "Many officers are seriously lacking because of lack of opportunity oppor-tunity for proper taaining and the reports coming in to the State show it." Mr. Lines stated. "Gathering "Gath-ering of supporting evidence is weak, and the accident reports are thus frequently of little value. This seriously hampers the whole program of accident data analysis analy-sis and future enforcement efforts." ef-forts." he said. The schools will be two-day affairs af-fairs in each city, with the instruction in-struction being repeated the second sec-ond day so as to accommodate officers of different shifts in each area. The latest edition of the Northwestern University Traffic Institute Manual for Traffic Investigation Inves-tigation will be the principle text, with visual aids and films supplied sup-plied by the sponsoring agencies. |