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Show in the vehicle operator's home -county. Another 17 percent occur oc-cur in a county adjacent to the vehicle operator's home county, and 8 per cent within other counties of the state. This bears out the paradox that often the locations about which the public complains frequently have the fewest traffic traf-fic accidents. The reason seems to be that a dangerous looking spot is usually treatd with great respect re-spect by drivers. Auto accidents happen often close at home Where do people have automobile auto-mobile accidents? Is it some distant and unfamiliar place? Or is it close to home? Statistics Sta-tistics compiled by the Research Re-search Section of the Utah State Department of Highways indicates that 61.6 of vehicle accidents occur within a radius of five miles from place of residency. res-idency. According to J. Edward Johnston, Deputy Director of Highways for Planning and Traffic, sixty-three percent of fatal traffic accidents accur |