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Show Pedestrians, Young Drivers CreateTrafficProblem Pedestrians and teen-age drivers driv-ers show up as a special problem in I'tah traffic safety, it was indicated in-dicated in a special analysis of I'tah traffic fatalities during the first half of 1951, by the Utah Safety Council. Kighteen of the SO deaths re-( re-( n let I during the six-month period per-iod were pedestrians lover 1 5 of the total) and nine of these IS were struck down by drivers under un-der L'5 years of age (50',' ), This pedestrian death record closely compares with the llt.5.'? i cord w hich showed pedestrians accounting for 23' I of the total of 20!! killed. However, the 1G-25 year-olds are worsening their 1!)53 rate of being involved as drivers in the auto-pedestrian fatal accidents. In this comparison, compari-son, the 1!:53 record was 10. p; for this age group. Collisions with other automobiles automo-biles or fixed objects accounted for 32 of the deaths. Twenty-one persons were killed as the result of the car running off the road. Nine were killed in miscellaneous miscellane-ous other types of mishaps. Six of the 18 pedestrian fatalities fatali-ties occurred in Salt Lake City, and this represented C0r; of the 10 deaths in Salt Lake during the six-month period. The Safety Council renewed its appeal to everyone to exercise special caution in relation to this hazard. "There is an added obligation upon motorists to be extra careful in watching out for pedestrians who are no match against an automobile, at any speed. At the same time, the records rec-ords show that seven out of 10 auto-pedestrian mishaps are the fault of the pedestrians themselves them-selves who jay-walk, cross against the light or dart into the street from between parked cars." |