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Show o o Nine Persons Killed In Idaho Traffic Toll For March Nine persons were killed in traffic traf-fic accidents in Idaho during March as compared with eight deaths during dur-ing the same month last year. This gave a, total of 30 for the first quarter of the year, an increase of five or about 17 per cent over the 25 for the first three months of 1940, reported J. L. Balderston. commissioner of law enforcement. He said that a third of March's toll were pedestrian deaths, one-third one-third in collision accidents and the remaining one-third were in two non-collision of motor vehicles and one person was. killed when he drove into a railroad train. "In keeping with the 40 per cent increase of traffic deaths in the rural areas as reported .throughout the nation, we find that 22 traffic fatalities in Idaho, since the first of the year, were in rural areas and eight within the limits of the cities," Commissioner Balderston said. "These eight deaths were pedestrians. The average age of he persons whose lives were sacrificed sac-rificed was 34 years or one half if the 68 years which is the mortality mor-tality table for expectancy of the average life. The youngest victim was six years of age and the oldest S3. Multiplying this average by the number of persons killed we arrive at the astonishing figure of 1020 years of life torn in the past three months from the pages of Idaho's future history. |