Show 48 wac 40 H as bian S blackest a C k est 1 1 r attic ay V year ear eat traffic fe in taah during duning ss totaled forthe states state s blackest highway slaughter in its history the long listwan list was 12 percent above the 1947 1047 mark of fat and eclipsed the fonner former record of deaths which we were re listed in 1938 the month of dec ember showed one traffic death for each day of the tragic total 08 were passengers an and d 73 were drivers auto pedestrian accidents result cd ed in 39 deaths one hundred and sixty two men compared with 57 4 women were victim of t the I 1 I 1 e heavy traffic onslaught two car accidents claimed the heaviest toll with gl 61 mishaps ac counting for 93 lives auto ped cr 1 r acci accles fin tin ants ta resulted ln in loss 39 lives of in 37 accidents Forty three persons met death when their autos ran off the road presumably at excessive speed in this category were two accidents in uintah county which claimed the lives of six persons blinding speed was presumed to be the no zacci lacci 1 loccident accident dent cause although utah safety council of ficiala cin declined to say BO so nily ally recognized as one of the u major problems problems of this motorized age highway highway safety has received in in creased attention from highway officials educations and civic grou groups in utah their efforts to hait halt e traffic toll howe vet have been to little avail as the mounting tempo of highway travel has been accompanied by widespread disregard pt drivers for human life iffe month by month analysis of the 1948 total shows the greatest number of fatalities inthe in the md mid summer and early wint w I 1 n t e r months january 0 9 february IS 13 march 12 april 10 may I 1 19 june 18 july 33 august 25 september 1 14 october 17 nov ember le 18 an and december 31 records ottic rat Wat national fonal ional safety council place traffic deaths abo above ve the fictional hiat fiat ional aver age a in proportion to population alge utah tah had 29 deaths per persons in 1947 2947 and in 1948 compared with the nelt neit national ional fonal aver aved age of and respective |