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Show WHEN STREET CARS . STOP. Salt Lake had an automobile accident ac-cident on Saturday night in which a man was killed and a woman fatally injured. A street car had stopped, the man and woman had stepped off. walked around 'the rear of the car to cross to the opposite side of the street and were struck down by an automobile moving at a rate of over 20 miles an hour. Responsibility for the tragedy rests direotly on the driver of the machine, and the offender against the rights of pedestrians should be punished, if for no other purpose than to set an example. -.Ogden has an 'ordinance which forbids for-bids automobiles being driven past a street car co.m(ing to a stop. A le-llablo le-llablo citizen informs the Standard that on Saturday night, as ho stood ut Twenty-fifth street and Washington Washing-ton avenue, two street oars stopped and he counted ten infractions of tho traffic ordinance lie made the prediction that a shocking accident will occur at the Washington avenue corner of the Reed Hotel, if auto drivers persist in making a run lor the hill while street cars arc letting off or taking on passengers at that point Why do the drivers of machines flirt with death in this manner? Are they eager for the time to come when they will be 'called on to face a little child in death, mangled by the wheels, or an aged woman, or an old man not active enough to escape No thoughtful owner of a car will allow himself or his chauffeur to continue con-tinue this practice of running by street cars. The street car people should instruct in-struct their conductors to report all violations of this traffic ordinance and the public generally should begin to make relentless war on those who arc too 'careless to comply with this simple rule of safety. |
