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Show OCTOBER 24, 4952 FAGS THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA. UTAH Drive Defensively Perfect Roads Cannot End Traffic Deaths 4th of series by Jack Goodman Captain L. A. Youngberg, head of the traffic division of the Salt Lake City Police Department, bitterly discussed the causes and cures of highway smashups recently. We could build a perfectly engineered freeway from Salt a road without Lake to Ogden hazardous crossings or curves, a divided road wide enough for three lanes in each direction and sure enough, someone would roll a car over on it and kill himself. Captain Youngberg proved an all - too - accurate seer. Forty-eighours after his statement, a Utah motorist met death in an overturning car on the wide, smooth, divided stretch of U. S. Highway 91 South of Lagoon. average motorist. Where do motorists 'and pedestrians die? A year ago, 72 of yoijr friends and neighbors were wiped out in urban accidents, while 135 lost their races with death on county and state rural roads. This year, the proportion is even more striking. As of July 1, just 15 traffic fatalities were listed in major Utah cities in Logan, Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake, Murray, Provo and Ogden. Ninety-sevemen, women and children had died on highways classified as rural." True enough, Kane, Piute, Daggett and Morgan Counties were without fatalities but so were the communities of Price, n Brigham City and Tooele. Cities Better Mark The states nine principal cities showed a drop in fatalities this year, as against 1951 with just 15 black crosses in the cities, as against 28 on July 1 a year ago. Unfortunately, county totals rose from 72 in 1951 to 97 this July 1. And the end of course, is not in sight except for another hundred or so doomed pedestrians and motorists. Whats wrong in the once bucolic countryside, where granddad let his buggy amble toward a market, while he dozed in a leather seat? Granddad Old Dob could break the law six-mon- th bin had horse sense. You can't Safety Council executive direcyour car has no eyes of its tor; In 87 per cent of traffic own. accidents recorded, drivers inWhereas fewer cars use even volved contributed to smashups the busiest state highways than by violating a traffic law. What are major failings of use checkerboard city streets, who dont live to dismotorists motorists simply refuse to use the common sense God gave cuss them? Mr. Bourne ranks them, fail to recognize that them as: Excessive speed, failure to obwhereas a law violation may reserve signals or signs, failure to comsult in smashed fenders in intent courtesy, driver signal urban slow moving paratively traffic, the same violation lets fatigue and intoxication. Others, errors that can kill say failure to signal for a turn, or to make a full stop at a sign just as efficiently, although not is virtually suicide where cars responsible for quite so sizeable pass each other at a combined a toll, include poor physical condition bad eyesight or the speed of 120 miles per hour. or slow reactions of an over-ag- e Laws Violated inexperienced drivers; such sudSays G. Ernest Bourne, Utah den hazards as sunset glare, wew ht Statistics Cited The police expert needed no crystal ball. For a brief glance at vital statistics statistics with which you, the motorist, shows are vitally concerned Utahs current traffic death toll is one compounded of excessive speed, law violations and the faulty judgement of the ,,, ' Z'JMr- - It J ij ? v bright oncoming lights, highway chuckholes; the poor mechanical condition of a car, including faulty brakes, lights or windshield wipers; weather-cause- d conditions, and such highway faults as badly aligned curves, narrowing pavement, improperly marked passing stripes and hidden access points to main highways. the outside car roof. Such a chap is hardly prepared to swerve his car safed needs arise. ly when As the safety executive sees it: A basic change in attitude is required. The feeling that accidents will happen, or that laws are made for the other fellow, is too widespread. 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