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Show Accidents Could Be Stopped with Common Sense Bach year hundreds of people ' in Utah suffer accidents causing s'rious and painful injury and death due to oauses most of which are preventable. During the first six months of 1959, according to statistics released re-leased by the Utah State Department Depart-ment of Health, 214 people died in accickuls, 18,000 suffered injuries injur-ies and an estimated economic loss of $19,000,000 was sustained. The heaviest death toll resulted result-ed from traffic accidents with 84, followed by home accidents with 50 anoS public non-motor ac-. ac-. cidents such as falls, firearms, and drownings, accounting for 4 9 deaths. In traffic, multiple-fatal accidents acci-dents in which two or more persons per-sons were killed, accounted for 22 deaths. One third of the 96 drivers driv-ers involved in fatal accidents were 24 years of age or younger. The 25-35 age igroup was next highest with 28 dripers involved. Home accidental deaths, as usual, us-ual, were dvie largely to falls, burns, choking, drowning, and careless use of firearms. Infant, children and the aged were the most frequent victims. The death toll from accidents in Utah, last year was 550. The first six months of 1959 was almost al-most exactly half the entire years total for 1958. The tragic fact is that most of these accidents and killings were preventable had people only used courtesy on the road, common sense and obedience to well-known well-known safety rules. |