OCR Text |
Show Rural accidents most deadly, study reveals In a recent study, investigators investiga-tors found that there were four times as many deaths for every hundred people injured in rural rur-al traffic accidents as in urban accidents. Courtney H. Brewer, Brew-er, Utah State University extension ex-tension safety program leader, said the study indicated that inadequate emergency care probably contributes far more to the "unnecessary fatalities" on rural highways than speed and accidents severity. Actually, Actu-ally, the rural accidents were of the same severity or even less severe than those in the urban areas. He said this indicates indi-cates a need for more safety and first aid training and provisions pro-visions for more adequate emergency care. Julian A. Walker, M.D., of the Bureau of Occupational Health, where the study was conducted, explained, "Delay in discovery and delay in treatment treat-ment probably explains much of the excess traffic mortality experienced in the rural areas." He maintains that the midi-cal midi-cal profession, including state and county medical societies, must assume a greater leadership leader-ship role in assisting with first aid training for emergency personnel, including both ambulance am-bulance drivers and police. He suggests that rural communities communi-ties take steps to vastly improve im-prove their existing private or volunary ambulance service. "Findings indicate that a number num-ber of hospitals and communities communi-ties have not made even the most simple preparations for emergencies. It seems reasonable reason-able to develop emergency and disaster plans around the most major disaster that is likely to hit a rural community. I am not referring to a nuclear attack, but a collision of the community's school bus. Under Un-der such circumstances injuries injur-ies to thirty or forty people may easily occur." he declared. Recovering Horance W. Clark, who suffered suf-fered a crushed vertebre in an automobile accident Monday of last week, when his camper went over on the highway north of town, is expected to be at Utah Valley Hospital a month as result of the accident. acci-dent. His condition however is improved. A son Frederick came by plane from Seattle, Washington, during the weekend week-end to visit him and Mrs. Clark. |