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Show Fatalities from Utah Accidents Decreased 12 With nini" months of the your lu.hiiui us, I't'i'i lms loi-ordod IDS r,lfri0 l"taliti,.s in 117 nccidonts. Tills ropresmts a 12';;, decrease "l m-CKL'nts and a (i.l,;, iecron.se in iiitahtics compared with the coi'iospon(in; u.ri0(t in jyr, The Utah Snfotv Council reported re-ported that over the period of the last four years, nn average of 72.5 percent of the year's traffic fatalities fatal-ities are recorded during the first nine months. On this basis Safety (u,'il spokesmen projected an estimate of iS)0 traffic fatalities to the end of 1954. This would be 19 lower deaths over 1953, or a 5U" decrease. The safety Council said, however, that to realize this numerical and percentage decrease, de-crease, Utah would have to improve im-prove for the final three months of 195-1. Some slight encouragement was given to safety officials upon noting' not-ing' a rather significant improvement improve-ment m accidents involving cars running off the road. During the fust nine month period of 1954, there has been an approximate 32 percent decrease in such accidents and also eight less pedestrians have been killed compared with the corresponding period in 1953. On the other side of the scale, however, how-ever, the miscellaneous types of accidents other than the above and collisions have increased 100 percent. |