Show Most Utah Auto Accidents Occur Close To Home WHERE DO PEOPLE HAVE automobile Or is it close to Is it some distant and unfamiliar the Research Section of the Statistics compiled by Utah State Department of Highways indicates that of vehicle accidents occur within a radius of five miles from place of ACCORDING TO J. EDWARD Deputy Director of Highways for and sixty-three percent of the fatal traffic accidents occur in the vehicle operators home county Another 17 occur in a county adjacent to the vehicle operators home and 8 occur within other counties of the BEARS OUT THE paradox that often the locations about which the public complains frequently have the fewest THE REASON SEEMS TO BE that a dangerous looking spot is usually treated with great respect by while a harmless appearing stretch of road may breed that fatal OLD Breeds of highway There is explains a great proportion no question but what confusion in unfamiliar surroundings docs contribute to some traffic accidents |