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Show Police give annual I accident j report Pleasant Grove Police Officers investigated 173 traffic accidents during 1983 which is down from 1982, according to the end of year ; report released by Chief Mike Ferre. Total damage to the property involved was $198,423. There were 29 accidents with injuries. Three drunk driving incidents resulted in ! injury. " " ' ' i Accidents were down five percent from 1982 and damage was down 1 19 percent from the year before. Injuries were down 13 percent from the year before. There were five arrests made for driving under the influence in connection with auto accidents and three arrests for other causes. The high risk intersections, according to Chief Ferre, are 100 E. and State Road 89 where nine accidents or five percent occurred; 300 E. and State Road 89 where five accidents occurred; 100 E. and 200 South where four accidents ! occurred; 600 E. and 200 N. where four accidents occurred; U-114 and State Road 89 where four occurred; 100 E. and Center where three occurred and Center and State Road 89 where three occurred. More accidents happen on Thursdays and Fridays, with 18 percent apiece and Saturday was the next worse day. Sunday is the safest day to drive in Pleasant Grove according to the figures. Seventy-four percent of the accidents occurred in afternoon or at night with 25 percent in the morning hours. One percent was not accounted for as to time of day. Most accidents, 65 percent, happened on dry roads and only seven percent happened on icy roads. Contributing .circumstances to an accident showed that improper lookout was the major factor listed with 32 percent. Failure to yield accounted for 16 percent; and speeding, 11 percent. Most accidents happened in the daylight with 65 percent of them occurring then, 15 percent in the dark with no lights, nine percent in the dark with street lights and six percent at dawn or dusk. |