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Show Traffic Death Toll Challenges S. L. Area - . ' . ' : ; , ; " " " '. ' ' ' ' ' " ' FOUR PERSOUS LOSE LIVES III 3-DAYPERI0D Fatalities in Salt Lake City, Davis County Mar Record By BOB HALS , Four persons dead . . . ' That fact confronted trsfflo' safety leaders of the metropolitan area In and around Salt Lake City Thursday as the new year was only 72 hours old. In the first three days of 1940 four persons have been killed la traffic accidents In the area In eluding Salt Lake City, Salt Lake county outside the city, Utah county and Davis county. So far, Utah county and Salt Lake county outside Salt Lake , City, as Individual units, have escaped es-caped traffic death. The four fa-tatllles fa-tatllles liaf B'tjeefrreeeeded lsDavie- county and Salt Lake City. Fearth Death The death Wednesday evening of Jacob Cranvtl Cook, 82, of Clear- field, la an accident at Clearfield, , became No. 4 in the area and the ' third la Davla county In 194a The four deaths constituted a -' challenge to safety leaders and the public as well, because the area now la In an unfavorable positloa as contrasted to that of 1939. Up to January 4, 1939, there had been no traffic deaths In Salt Lake City,. Salt Lake county or Davla county. Two had been recorded la Utah county up to January 4 last -year. Already the Davis county death toll Is nearly half that of all of . 1939. In all of last year eight persons per-sons were killed In that county. ' Three have met death already la , 1940. . ' Major PreMeaa The four, deaths to date In the metropolitan area only bear out-the out-the lesson learned In 1939 that pedestrian fatalities are the major problem. Two of the four victims In the area this year were pedestrian -Mr. Cook, who was run over by an automobile In front of an Inn at Clearfield, and Welter W. Steed. II, struck and killed by aa automobile automo-bile la Salt Lake 6ty Monday night. . . . The two pedestrian deaths showed also that advanced age continues con-tinues to be a factor. Both pedestrians pedes-trians had passed the SO-yea mark. The other two deaths of the four In the area 'resulted from a collision col-lision of motor vehicles. Mrs. Jessie Jes-sie Cool Anderson Parrish, 23, of Farmington, and Howard H. Mann, ' 23, of Bountiful were faulty Injured In-jured In a two-car - crash near Bountiful early Monday morning. |