Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-01-05 | Page 6 | We Can Do Still Better

I ti We Can Do Still Better Beffer I I TRAFFIC deaths In Salt Lake City and in II Utah as expected dropped sharply in 1942 In both city and state the death toll was the lowest or equal to the lowest toll toU in many years L IS In Ia Salt Lake City we ha 22 deaths This II j i t. t i I v J i i S r- r T ii 5 5 S Is equal to the number in 1939 which was the thelow low 10 point In traffic fatalities for the the past 17 years In Utah we had deaths which com corn compares compares pares with in 1941 In 1940 in 1939 in 1938 and in 1937 In the last 10 years yeats prior to 1942 our average toll was a year Compared Compare to previous records therefore the record for or safety o on the highway last year is good However it should be remembered that we can hardly compare the traffic situation situation situa situa- tion lion in 1942 with that of previous years Wartime Wartime Wartime War War- time speed limits s and curbs on driving have greatly cut highway cut highway speeds and volume of traffic We should haVe haIe had a very considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable reduction in fatalities There is good reason to question whether we actually have ave done as well as we might have done Salt Lake City despite wartime restrictions still sUll had as many fatalities as it had in 1939 Utah despite r restrictions on driving which had far greater effect outside cities where most state traffic fatalities occur still had only 13 fewer deaths than it hadin had hadin hadin in 1939 All of which means that we probably can cando cando cando do better in 1943 than we did in 1942 And this ye year r we will have a much fairer basis for r comparison the comparison the record ecord in a full war year ear deaths in the state 22 in the he city We can beat that fatality toll this year 5 Lets Let's doit do it Sp J