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Show exactly similar. Five of those states' Idaho, with 7.9 deaths per hundred million miles; Nevada, 9 6 New Mexico, 10.1; Wyoming, io4 and Arizona, 10.7, made a poorer showing than did Utah; while Washington, 5.8; Oregon, 6 3' Colorado, 7.3; and Montana, 7 6- were better than Utah, measured mea-sured by deaths per traffic mile and California, as noted above, tied this state, with a 7.7 record. The record of the states varied all the way from three persons per hundred million miles in densi-ly populated Rhode Island to 11.1 persons in Alabama. o STATE TAX COMMISSION RELEASES SAFETY FIGURES Salt Lake City, August 3 Announcement An-nouncement received in Utah recently re-cently from the national safety council shows that in 1949 persons per-sons were killed on Utah highways high-ways at the rate of 7.7 for every hundred million miles of vehicle travel on those highways. This compared with a national record of 7.4 fatalities for the same a-mount a-mount of highway use. Among the states, however, Utah stands almost precisely at the half way mark in its traffic fatality record for 1949. Some 24 states made a better showing, and 23 a worse. California had almost exactly the same number of persons killed per traffic mil-, es as Utah; but the council estimates esti-mates that in California fatal ac-' cidents occurred to 28.2 persons ! per 100,000 population, while in Utah the rate was 25.5 persons per 100,000 population. Among the 11 western states, the Utah 1949 record is almost! |