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Show Invitation to Another Tragedy 'THE accident involving a school bus on IT. S. 91 Just north of the Davis county line may prove a 'good thing. "It was Just plain lucky someone wasn't killed," said Captain L. L. Fryer of the state highway patrol after Investigating the accident acci-dent He Is right. Certainly such maneuvers by a school bus as resulted In the mishap Tuesday Tues-day morning are an Invitation to another Utah school bus tragedy. Therefore It is perhaps well the accident happened, so that the danger can be corrected and a possible future tragedy averted. It is amazing to learn that It was common practice on the part of this huge school bus to make a U-turn in the middle of the heavily traveled highway leading north from Sal Lake Clty-J-tturn which required the bus to stop In the middle of the highway, broadside to traffic, and then back up across the highway, In order to complete the turn. - That Is an exceedingly dangerous practice which must be discontinued. Some method of getting a school bus turned around at the end of its run other than a U-turn which brings a bus to a halt across a highway certainly can be found. |