Iron County Record | 1941-04-17 | Page 12 | Traffic Violation Show Increase for Last Month

Traffic Violations Show Increase For Last Month Spring weather and the lure of the open road seems to have made more Utah motorists forget to keep their minds on their driving and their attention on the speedometer according ac-cording to the report Just received by the Road Commission on Highway High-way Patrol activities for March. The patrol made 1087 arrests during March as compared with 855 during dur-ing February. Three Hundred and three arrests were made for speeding, speed-ing, more than half of which were in Salt Lake County. During February, Feb-ruary, 231 tickets were issued by the patrol for speeding. One hundred fifty-four motorists were given tickets for running stop signs, as compared with 93 during February. The surprising feature of the report re-port Is the number of Utah motorists motor-ists who continue to drive without a driver's license. The patrol issued 249 tickets to drivers who failed to comply with the driver's license requirement, re-quirement, while 175 motorists were given tickets because the cars they were driving were not properly registered. reg-istered. During the month, the patrol Issued Is-sued 574 warning tickets as compared com-pared to 384 issued during February. Febru-ary. With 35 traffic fatalities to April first this year, W. D. Hammond, chairman of the 'Road Commission, has Issued an earnest appeal to all Utah motorists to use extreme caution cau-tion in driving during the balance of the year, and to also be sure that the cars they drive are in first class mechanical condition. Mr. Hammond expressed the opinion that this is the only way that traffic fatalities can be held to a minimum.