| Show Driving Drinking and Dying Ding People Are losers In 1966 Annual Aniwa Report During 1966 the local High wa way Patrolmen trove drove miles miles far enough h to take to the moon and on once or twice around it it Those miles were roiled roBed up here Ie on earth in the Uintah Ba- Ba Basin sin THE ANNUAL report by Sergeant Howard D Powell shows 1678 persons pen were call call- called ed into court for traffic viola viola- violations during the year ear in District J which includes Duchesne Daggett and Counties Of the above figure 93 of those citations were for driving while intoxicated Warrants and pickup orders 89 and the busy husy troopers were called on to han han- silo dIe special details such as emergency shuttles persons for emergency es s 's and safety programs MANY drivers were thankful tor for the VIII troopers on the roads Roads drivers precisely who needed assistance from from tine the brown clad officers because of trouble along the highway Highway patrolmen picked up I twelve stolen cars that thaI were in interstate transit during the year ear and they arre arrested 21 per per- persons sons involved with auto theft The year 1966 showed five percent fewer accidents but but deaths during the year doubled as patrolmen Investigated wrecks TWELVE OF those wrecks killed one person each Injuries ranging froth from slight to serious were inflicted on people Losses Loss's in property damage during the year amounted to THE COUNTY breakdown on fatal accidents showed an in in- in increase crease of three during the past year for Duchesne County A two car accident near Fruitland claimed two lives Another person died 12 miles west of Duchesne when the car carran carran ran off time the road Another ve- ve vehicle ve hicle ran Jan off the road near the west Duchesne city limits kill kill- killing Ing another person A RUNAWAY truck on a steep grade claimed the life of Its driver r in Indian Canyon A pedestrian was struck and kill kill- killed ed northwest of the Roosevelt city lim limits its Uintah County lost one per per- person son a savings of three lives over 1965 One person died when a car ran off the road nine miles west of Vernal Daggett County which had escaped 1965 with all of her people olive alive on the highways saw her roads bloodied as six people died in six separate wrecks IN THREE single accidents involving cats cars running off the road lOad south of Dutch John three people were killed I Two trucks ran away with their drivers vcrs and both drivers lost their lives in the crashes that followed One pedestrian stepped onto the road and into eternity as a acar acar car struck Ida down The year 1966 brought twice as many highway deaths for the three counties than did 1965 1967 1907 is waiting |
