Show 1934 TRAFFIC MISHAPS COST TOTAL 65 Property Damage Reaches Medical Care Costs Sum of By BILL l Traffic accidents in 1934 cost the people of or Salt Lake City That terrific price for carelessness ness was totaled as follows Property dama damage e Hospital Hospit l and medical care Funeral expenses Total 2011 65 That total came carne from the following sources Total accidents It It II II 1216 Total injured II II 1104 Total deaths 41 These figures figure were compiled by byThe byThe byThe The Telegram through cooperation of police who traced the cost in property damage to automobiles from hospitals and physicians who compiled ed medical cost of care for forthe forthe forthe the injured and from undertakers who buried the dead The actual loss in dollars and cents that will pile up during the entire life of ot traffic accident victims who were maimed or scarred for tor life will of or course never be known In Saturdays Saturday's Telegram the qu question ques ques- tion hon was asked Does tra traffic ic enforcement enforcement en en- pay That question was asked because figures show v that maintenance of the police traffic department cost the city between and in in 1934 1034 and because police court records showed that fines and forfeitures from traffic law violators totaled only In other ther words the traffic department department depart depart- ment went more than in the red s Police claimed to be able to just justify jus jus- t maintenance of or a traffic depart depart- from a 01 cash cas revenue vl view viewpoint w point and d from an accident prevention prevention tion viewpoint Their rea reasons ons were to have been published today but completion Monday fonda of The Telegram accident cost survey urvey prevented this Facts reveal however that their reasons attain more emphasis because of these accident cost discoveries It must be remembered in connection connection connection tion with the accident cost tot total l that no attempt has b been n made to ascertain the dollars and cents loss sj cj of working Ji Jp time e suffered by py ms or the money toss loss t that at will willbe willbe willbe be suffered by families whose bread breadwinners breadwinners' breadwinners breadwinners' breadwinners breadwinners' winners' winners lives were snuffed out by automobiles In Tuesdays Tuesday's Telegram will be presented the police viewpoint of Salt Lake City's staggering traffic accident loss If more rigid traffic enforcement can r reduce duce this total even oneth third one rd the traffic d department will more tha than justify t the e cost ost of its I maintenance |