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Show Utah Safety Council Hopes for Accident Prevention With Just more than a week remaining re-maining in 1958, the State of Utah has a chance to hold traffic traf-fic fatalities below the 200 mark for the first time since 1950, the Utah Safety Council noted today. to-day. On the other hand, traffic accidents so far this year have resulted in nearly $20 million of economic losses in addition to the human and personal losses. At the same time, reported accidents, acci-dents, of a property damage nature, na-ture, have Increased by nearly 25 per cent. This, however, is due to better reporting than In previous years. "While naturally we are grate-ful grate-ful that some lives have been saved this year, we grieve for the ones who were lost," said L. V. Black, president of the council. "There is much we must yet do to remove the blight of accident. Our recently completed court conferences, con-ferences, t ad evaluations of local lo-cal accident prevention activities clearly show much need. Until our state and Utah cities moas-1 ure up to even the minimum standards we cannot pride ourselves our-selves on achievements." The council appealed to everyone every-one to avoid making :t tragic mockery of the holiday season through accidents. Tedestrians and motorists alike can do this by observant of laws and ordinances ordi-nances keeping vehicles in safe operating conditions, and watch-1 ing out for the careless driving and walking habits of other persons. per-sons. The hundreds of lives the National Safety Council says could be lost over the holiday season can be saved, but it's up to the public and every individual. |