Show SIDEWALK LACK CAUSE OF FATAL AUTO ACCIDENTS sheriffs report tells of pedestrians killed while in CarsT cars traffic raffle lane clipping from catl lake telegram of april 4 1090 throe three out of live five fatal fatalities ldes resulting from traffic accidents outside incorporated corp orated towns in salt isalt lake county since january I 1 this year were caused by pedestrians walking in that section ot of streets rily allotted to vehicular traffic le lack of sidewalks paralleling highways Is given as tho the chief reason for the em d ibbons this fact was disclosed friday with lulng filing odthe of the monthly report from sheriff cilfford Patt pattona traffic depart ment oui out of a total of eighteen accidents reported to the sheriffs office dulce in march twelve persons were injured and one was killed A similar number of occurred during the previous while in january there were three persons killed in traffic reported to the sheriffs she ritts office fatal accidents to pedestrians it Is currently reported that accidents to pedestrians run into hundreds of thousands owanda tb annually we have bave no detail statistics of this but believe the statement Is ju justified hufled fled re ports total accidents to pedestrians as fol lows 1027 1928 hotl children 1074 1674 1431 1434 adults 1242 1145 2387 total 2 years 2910 2010 2570 average per year 1458 1290 2748 of course these accidents were not all caused by absence of sidewalks but we believe a large percentage of them were from that lack many of them were fatal and in many cas cases esthe the persons were maimed or otherwise injured for life |