OCR Text |
Show 1 622 Accidents Are Investigated . During Past Year A report of the activities of the Utah Highway Patrol in the southwest portion of Utah was filed this past week and is or interest to residents of the area. The activities represent District Dis-trict II of the law enforcement enforce-ment agency and comprises the counties of Iron, Beaver and Washington. During the course of the year just recently completed a total of 622 accidents were investigated by the Highway Patrol. Of those involved 18 deaths were recorded and 184 personal injuries were sustained. sustain-ed. In addition 420 property accidents were included. Other activities involved emergency blood shuttles, stolen sto-len car and wanted appre- hensions, safety talks, and assistance to city, county and other state agencies related to law enforcement. I During the year there were 2518 arrests made for moving mov-ing and non-moving violations and 2230 warning tickets issued. is-sued. Radio communications at Cedar City and St. George handled 112,825 radio transmissions trans-missions and 54,205 telephone calls, the report indicated. |