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Show "Why Worry About 32 Thousand Dead? There were 32,000 persons killed in automobile accidents in lHliO, according to figures compiled by a laige insurance company. The American public, and that includes the people of Sanpete County, have been strangely unconcerned un-concerned over the death rate. They seem to take it for granted chat automobiles and dead pedestrians pedes-trians go together, and even, if at tunes, the occupants of automobiles automo-biles get killed, the accident is usually "unavoidable." How many pecple really believe that this is the truth half the lime? Not many, in our opinion. Speeding, drunkenness, and reckless reck-less driving tell the story more citen than not. Why wouldn't it be a good idea to have a more rigid investigation of these accidents? Why wouldn't it be a good idea to find out the facts about non-fatal accidents, which might reveal careless driv ig which will probably kill someone the next time? Personally, we arc not writing this editorial in a selfish capacity. We have no idea of letting any-ocy any-ocy m;i over us, and we hope to be able to keep cur wits together when driving the old bus. Iv :-imply isn't decreed, we hope, that cur end shall be via the auto route, but thera are 32,000 dead Americans in one year to show that somebody is going to get killed kill-ed in 11131. It's time to take steps to .stop the slaughter. |