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Show Car accidents cost everyone The dynamic force of inflation, infla-tion, which has seen a steady rise in such ordinary costs as fees, and other miscellaneous itms. j the price of bread, butter, and eggs has also laid its heavy hand upon the costs of traffic accidents. Statistics released by the Research Division, Utah State Department of Highways, disclose that the direct price tag to each Utah citizen for traffic accidents has risen from $32.26 in 1955 to a unit cost of $52.48. A motor vehicle traffic acci- dent is defined as any accident I occurring on a highway result- ing in death, injury or property damage involving a motor ve- I hide in motion. I According to Blaine J. Kay, I State Highway Engineer, there I are approximately 400000 reg- 8 istered passenger cars and 600, I 000 licensed drivers who drove passenger cars 4.8 million vehicle ve-hicle miles over Utah's 36,891 miles of streets and highways. When the research was made, Utah's population was estimated estimat-ed at 1,010,000. Mr. Kay indicated indi-cated that the price tag for traffic accidents in Utah to-aled to-aled $53 million, based on direct di-rect costs which are composed of the money value of damages dam-ages to property, hospital bills, services of physicians, dentists, and nurses ambulance use, medicine, time lost, damages awarded in excess of other costs, attorney's service, court |