Show Police to lo War On Salt Sail Lake Jaywalkers Special Safety Drive To Include Child Program By THOMAS MATHEWS VS Want to die this month Or next The question needs no answer but how many will actively defend themselves and their esteemed ones from a grinding painful death The Salt Lake City police department department de de- de- de convinced that the precepts precepts precepts pre pre- of pedestrian safety are either ignored or taken for granted grant grant- ed by city residents is preparing I Ito j to teach walking Salt Lakers to guard themselves and their children children chil chil- dren from the traffic hazards which inexorably have rubbed out I 18 lives Jives so far in 1946 in thelast the thelast thelast last 10 years National Safety council statistics statistics statistics statis statis- tics for tor 1945 1915 reveal that two out of three traffic deaths are arc pedestrian pedestrian pedestrian trian victims The Thc proportion Is greater in Salt Lake City this year 18 out of oC 22 fatalities were killed while walking Three Phases The police campaign launched I with the advertisement of the tri fri city traffic safety committee will co consist of three ree phases s an edu eu- cation canon period pence adequate warning time and strict enforcement of the city ordinances governing pedestrian pedestrian pedestrian trian activity declared F. F Clark Sanford head of the traffic traffie division division divi divi- sion Thursday The safety committee headed by Police Judge Reva Beck Bosone has devised three approaches approaches' I to the problem The first is directed direct direct- ed to the young children and their parents the judge explained Figures compiled by Sergeant Sanford for 1946 to date show that 28 of the pedestrian deaths in Salt Lake City are in the age group from 2 to 6 years including one child hUd on a tricycle e. e More Mgr than one-half one of the accident Injuries to people walking on the streets were in the age bracket u under 14 years In an attempt to influence the safety consciousness of this playful playful playful play play- ful heedless group the committee commit commit- tee has directed th the printing of approximately cards to be distributed to the city's school children The cards will be designed de de- de- de signed to attract their young Y g at- at f r c- c cs's ss s's ty fo fph- fph oh- oh stant slant of a a afew few simple rules whenever they step off a curbing Sergeant Sanford said Child ChUd Accidents A study of the major causes of I child a accidents reduces to three the dangerous practices which re result result re- re sult suit often in injury or death he maintained They are playing in the street darting from behind parked cars and carelessly crossing crossing crossing cross cross- ing the street All three can be he eliminated by creating habitual re reflexes reflexes reflexes re- re flexes in the child who enters a street Such reflexes are obtained by bythe bythe bythe the repetition of simple traffic lessons by parents and teach teachers rs in school in the home and best of oC all whenever an adult can lecture in the street itself the traffic head asserted Police Chief L. L C. C Crowther called attention to the liason hiason beIng being being be be- ing formed between Teach Parent-Teach- called attention on to the liaison be- be instruct both parents and teachers to defend their charges from suicidal suicidal sui sui- sul- sul childish impulsiveness Safety conscious fathers and mothers m make ke safet safety conscious children he said Traffic authorities ar are going to attempt to ingrain into the Salt Lake City school children the precept Stop Look and Live The Tho next article In this series to describe the pedestrian safety safety safety safe safe- ty campaign soon loon to descend on the city will explain the efforts to save sa lives hives of the most vulnerable ul n rabIe group of al all the aged |