Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-11-24 | Page 9 | Safety Sought for Pedestrian

Safety Sought For Pedestrian Prevent pedestrian deaths and a long step forward In reducing traffic traf-fic fatalities will have been taken. With that thought, the Utah traffic safety council, through the chairman of Its education committee. commit-tee. Earl J. Glade, Friday had Issued Is-sued suggestions for protecting pedestrians. The council noted that in the first 10 months of 1939, 117 fatal traffic accidents occurred In Utah. Forty-five of them, or 41 per cent, were motor vehicle-pedestrian accidents. ac-cidents. Twenty-four of these occurred oc-curred In urban areas and 21 In rural sections. The council found by studying the facta that children under 14 years old and persons over SO are the ones toward whom education activities should be directed. They form a majority of victims. "This safety education work should start In the home," the council advises. "Surely the child under 14 should be taught safety practices when walking on our streets and highways, and elderly persons should be impressed with the need for using extreme caution cau-tion when venturing out on the highway, especially after darkness has set In." In connection with the problem of adult pedestrians, the council noted one highly pertinent fact that statistics show 93 per cent of pedestrian fatality victims never have been licensed to drive an automobile. "Consequently," the council says, "they have very little Idea of the distance required to stop a car at any given speed and also have very little of the driver's viewpoint on safety."