| Show Resolutions S 1 OnS By Public Education Committee y y- y I WHEREAS sta statistics covering hI highway hway traffic accidents ts In 1944 1914 though still Incomplete prove Tho The number of deaths in Utah resulting fr from m such accidents In Increased Increased increased In- In creased more nore than 16 per Der cent as compared with 1943 The number of ut accidents In Increased Increased increased In- In creased In the same time more morp than 10 per ner cent rent At least three of the deaths death w were re from accidents in which the drivers were operating whose lIcenses li licenses lI- lI censes censeR had been revoked or sus- sus 1 d pen d e eA A very large proportion of the victims of ot fatal tatal motor vehicle aCcidents accidents accidents ac aC- ac- ac were pedestrians Officials have noted an ever In Increasing Increasing increasing In- In I of or ofa creasing tendency on the part a considerable le portion of ot the public pub puh- public lic to Ignore or to defy laws enacted enacted enacted en en- acted In the Interests of public safety The rhe Utah laws covering highway highway highway high high- way traffic safety are modern and andIn andIn andIn In accord with the best collective thought of ot safety engineers and traffic truffle students throughout hout th tb nation WHEREAS these facts call for both hoth aggressive enforcement of the safety statutes and for tor vigorous vigorous vigor vigor- ous nus agencies now therefore I BE RE IT RESOLVED that tho the public Education Committee of ot tho the Traffic Division of the Utah Safety Council redouble its efforts f to the time end that every responsible Ible user of ot Utah highways and streets shall be he impressed with the need for alert and observance of ot all traffic rules and regulations designed de for public safety and pedestrians as well as car operators operators opera opera- tors lors be Impre impressed sed with the nee need to take every precaution whether required by law or by regard for their own safety a and d that of ot others and BE DE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we pledge our support port and that of ot the thinking public to the efforts of all officers whether employed by state county or municipality municipality mu mu- in the rigid enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment of all safety laws and andI especially of those statutes which I r refuse tuse permission to use the high highways highways ways to unQualified and U I I ed persons and BE DE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we commend all enforce enforcement officers and agencies and esp especial I ly Sept Supt P P. P L I. Dow of at thel tho the State stat Highway l hway Patrol and Chief Of ot 1 Po lino o Reed Vet of Salt Lai Lake City for tho measures tb they then r ha bareI have bare barer I taken to tu follow cases of ot 1 convicted of ot persons such offenses against traffic safety th i ithe the law requires the suspension Or revocation o of their operators Operators' II censes Unanimously passed at a meP tn tn g of the Public Education Cot Com Traffic Division ilia Utah h Safety Council Connell January ij 11 1945 r rv v |
