| Show WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO EDITOR'S NOTE Some startling and very revealing facts were brought to light by the Deseret News-Telegram in an editorial Tuesday April Has The Right To The five-death automobile collision on Easter Sunday near Salt Lake City is the subject of the The lone survivor of six persons involved in the two-car that adds a terrible blot on Utah's was a husband and according to the was driving in violation of a series of traffic Because of the seriousness of this incident in which five persons innocently met death and brought agony and suffering to many relatives and we arc reprinting the editorial taken from the Deseret The slaughter of two young a father and two babies in a Single moment of is shocking and tragic almost beyond But two lessons arising from it ought to be One we mention only in It is that the five who were killed were all thrown out of their respective The who with only minor stayed Safety belts might have saved some lives The other lesson is far more far more far more even than This wreck was almost a classic case study in what some of us have long been must be eliminated to make the highways Wc are far from to the grief of the young man who has lost his wife and infant We would spare him further mental But the lesson his case teaches MUST be learned by the and there is no way to learn except by discussing The shocking fact is that within a period of one year and one beginning April this young man was convicted of five traffic including improper running a red running a stop speeding 20 miles over tha and negligent On the fifth conviction his driver's license was suspended for six Three months and one week he was convicted this time for driving with a suspended He was fined by a justice of the peace and his license suspended additional six That was last still with a suspended he was involved in an accident that wiped out five this scares us almost out of our Who is to say when our family or yours will be out for a social drive and will be wiped out by someone whose has cost him his but who is driving Does a license revocation no longer mean Has the driver's license become just a scrap of The state system is not to blame in this The law provides for automatic suspension of a license after the third moving violation in an This was done in the case under Two other suspensions But apparently they didn't mean This man kept on so we do countless DivinS with a suspended license is a misdemeanor punishable ui by a fine andor six-month jail This is hardly stiff considering the deliberate scoff-law at-t But this when paid what does all this It means this attitude we have that there is a traffic death every 13 minutes a yearL k means a traffic every 12 seconds a it means a traffic accident every 4 seconds-more than II million a The annual economic loss from this sorry spectacle exceeds America has faced such challenges Goaded into war we have gone in with all we and Preyed on bv we mustered our law officers in all-out effort and This ghastly traffic toll is a challenge of even greater Can we fight it and We if we will go all-out in the fight If we realize that all our all our education does not reach some 1 if we wage real war on fronts the the traffic court and the driver licensing authority we carl d mUSt make 3 baSiC Change in its We must recognize that there is no such thing as a to drive on public streets and These built are by the public for the benefit and safety of the and an y the person who shows proper respect for that safety ty shou X have the privilege to drive on Until public opinion enforces this point of will fr the wiM will continue to ignore and innocent people P will continue to be shamefully |
