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Show Car accidents probed by safety group A Utah State committee set up to investigate highway accidents in the state of Utah is meeting weekly at the University Medical Center. The committee was formed in order "to improve safety standards relating to both vehicles and highways" in Utah and the United States, according to the committee's report preface. The committee plans to function func-tion by "identifying accident causation, cau-sation, identifying injury causation, causa-tion, evaluating effectivity of new safety features, helping in the early detection of design and functional problems of vehicles and highways, and determining aging effects in vehicles and the value of periodic vehicle inspection." inspec-tion." The committee's project director direc-tor is James T. Weston, M.D., Utah state medical examiner. Other members of the committee are Edward F. Wilson, M.D., assistant assi-stant state medical examiner; Richard L. Warburton: Lt. E.M. Fitcher, Highway Patrol; M. Reed Harman; Fredrick Warner, M.S., University Mechanical Engineering Department; Charles Y. Warner, Ph.D., Brigham Young University Mechanical Engineering Depart- ment; Walt Sato and Toby Nelson, B.S., University of Utah Mechanical Mechani-cal Engineering Department; and Reed Iverson. They will make reports on 65 Utah accidents, to include engineering, en-gineering, police, and medical reports, re-ports, and submit them to the Field Accident Studies Division of the U.S. Department of Transportation. |