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Show ! EIGHT LIVES TAKEN IN TRAFFIC TOLL SINCE JANUARY 1 Idaho losl three or its future citizens when three boys, six, seven and ten years of ae, respectively Intel untimely deaths under the j wheels of automobiles during the first three mouths, of (be current year. Dui-iiiK the same period fotn of the stale's elder citizens, each of whom were more than fit) yoais of ace, were fatally injured by automobiles. au-tomobiles. The eij;li(h pedestrian victim was a younK man of 32 This is the, loll of lives of walkers as recorded in the surety bureau of the department of law enforcement. enforce-ment. In the first three months of 1940 four pedestrians "were killed. Of these two were over 50 years of aye and two were children. The increase in Idaho pedestrian deaths this year is in keeping with (he early reports of the national increase. in-crease. Last year 12.500 pedestrians pedes-trians were hilled as compared to 1-.470 in 19;!!). Four-fifths of the fatal accidents involving the walkers walk-ers occured upon the streets of their home towns. The eight persons per-sons killed in Idaho this year were upon the streets or their home tow IIS. |