Roosevelt Standard | 1950-10-26 | Page 2 | 128 Utahns Die in Nine Months

128 Utahns Die In Nine Months Utah had 128 fatal accidents the first nine months of this year, the same number for the same period as last year, according accord-ing to a report released by Patrick Pat-rick Healy, Jr., chairman of the State Tax Commission. Of the persons killed. 30 were pedestrians, 46 were killed in collisions with other motor vehicles, ve-hicles, and 33 were fatally injured in-jured wherr their cars ran off the roadway. The fact that the same number num-ber of persons were killed this year as last actually means a lower death rate, Mr. Healy pointed out, as there has been an increase of 10.9 per cent In the number of motor vehicles registered in Utah this year as compared with 1949.