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Show UNIVERSAL HICaonuiING P.O.BBOX 147 SAW LAKE CITY, VOL. VII CORP. UTAH JULY 26, 1952 NO. 38 News and Features oi Interest to Residents oi Davis County. LAYTON. DAVIS COUNTY. UTAH Out of 35,000 lives lost in traffic accidents in' 1950, 26,700 were sacrificed on the altar of carelessness. Speed excessive, killing speed accounted for nearly half that number. Speed, claiming 13,300 dead and 475,000 injured victims in a single year, : is the nations Killer No. 1. While .all traffic deaths declined from 1946 through 1949, even then fatalities on the open road kept creeping up. In 1950 a deadly spurt of speed accidents claimed 3,200 more victims in rural areas than it had the year before. Last year speed deaths again mounted. Why do drivers race so heedlessly to destruction on the highway? Hardly to save time. Scorching at 70 is an invitation to disaster. Over any distance, 50 m.p.L takes only a few minutes longer and offers a better chance of a safe arrival.' When you start out with your family or friends, discount speed before you take off. Give yourself and others in your car an extra margin of safety by leaving earlier and holding your speed within bounds. Its your responsibility to them and to others on the road. f Remember more than one out of every three fatal accidents is due to speed . Drive As Though Your Life Doponds On It - - IT DOESI 4 |