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Show Utah Motorists Fail To Heed "Life Saver" Slogan "Many motorists in Utah do not seem to be heeding the plea to "Slow Down and Live." Instead, In-stead, they seem to be doing just the opposite, by "speeding up and dying," declared G. Ernest Bourne, Utah coordinator for the "Slow Down and Live" summer-long summer-long traffic safety program. He pointed out that with less than three weeks covered since the "Slow Down and Live" program pro-gram started, 20 persons have been killed on Utah roads. This is more than one-third of the entire number (59) killed last year in the period between Memorial Mem-orial Day and Labor Day. The recent Memorial Day week end fatality figure for Utah showed more than a 100 increase over that of last year, with seven deaths, compared to three in 1954's holiday total. Thirteen of these victims died in five multiple-death accidents. This type of accident is rapidly becoming characteristic of Utah's traffic record, and threatens another an-other all-time high annual figure fig-ure of traffic deaths for the state, despite a relatively low figure for fatal accidents, as such, ac- cording to Mr. Bourne. The "Slow Down and Live" campaign so far is facing somewhat some-what better on the national level. le-vel. Latest available figures indicate. in-dicate. "This is far from the result re-sult we hoped to achieve for the Memorial Day week end," said William M. Greene of Connecticut, Connecti-cut, chairman of the National Conference of State Safety Coor dinators, but it is actually an encouraging en-couraging prospect for the total 101 days of the 'Slow down and live' program. In the fact of increased in-creased traffic volumes, 31 states either reduced traffic deaths or 'held the line.' With the national nation-al trend of traffic fatalities upward up-ward in March and April this year, we have accomplished a lot if we have stopped that trend." |