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Show when his car hit a horse and rolled into the borrow pit. The car was damaged to the extent of $350 and the horse was destroyed. Early last May a truck o sand swung around a curve in the early morning and plowed into a truck load of ewes and lambs. Tlie toll was 81 sheep killed or injured to such an extent that it was necessary neces-sary to kill them. Ten days later in another county a truck with faulty brakes and going at high speed struck a double deck of sheep killing 36 head outright and injuring injur-ing 26 animals which had to be destroyed. de-stroyed. When a large truck load-j ed with hogs over-turned on a highway high-way two were killed and it was necessary ne-cessary to kill three injured hogs. v " TOLL OF LIVESTOCK IN STATE IS HEAVY Tdaho livestock owners suffered a heavy loss through the killing of cattle, horses, sheep and hogs by motor vehicls upon the highways during 1941 and at the present value o livestock the killings, together to-gether with the property damage to cars, would represent an economic econo-mic loss of approximately $20,000. The reports reaching the office of the Department of Law Enforcement Enforce-ment indicates the killing of livestock live-stock upon our highways, in the majority of instances, resulted from improperly attended or lack of attention upon the part of the owners of livestock. This problem should be given more importance than the theft of livestock and could through, proper cooperation and the posting of signs, particularly particul-arly during the months livestock are on the range, be relieved to a considerable degree. In 76 accidents whih involved collisions between motor vehicles and livestock, one person was killed, kill-ed, 12 others injured and 59 cars were damaged in excess of $50 each The animals killed were: 194 sheep 3:! horses, 16 cows and beef catlle and 11 hogs. The driver of a car died in a hospital of injuries hei sustained v. hen his car left the road after striking a horse. In another arcid-dent arcid-dent a driver hit two horses on the highway with the new car which he had purchased three hours before. be-fore. The horses were killed and the car demolished. A Christmas shopper, emulating Santa Clans with a carload of presents, sustained sustain-ed a, compound fracture of his jaw |