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Show where accidents are occurring and during the hours that they are happening. The key to such selective selec-tive enforcement is an adequate records system. caused nearly 4500 injuries, and resulted in a total economic loss of approximately $22,000,000. Experience indicates that more than nine out of every ten highway accidents are caused by driving errors er-rors or by a combination of driving and pedestrian errors. A consolidation of record handling han-dling activities in Utah into a central cen-tral records division not only would be in the interest of efficiency and economy, but would also greatly increase the volume and quality of data available for accident prevention pre-vention purposes, the Utah Foundation Foun-dation analysts said. No clear-cut policy of coordination coordina-tion between state and local traffic enforecment agencies exists at the present time, although some effort has been made during recent years to encourage local communities to assume a greater portion of the responsibility for traffic enforcement enforce-ment work. In order to be most effective, the time and equipment of the state highway patrol should be utilized on those highway sections ERicKsons in GOLDEfl DATE Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Erickson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary an-niversary at a dinner last week at the Town and Country Inn on Highland Drive. Out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Erickson and Mr. and Mrs. Treman of Denver, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Erickson of Texas; Mrs. Alice Erickson and son, and Mrs. Walter Wagstaff of Boise. Also in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones, Mrs. Verna Erickson and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ray-mond Erickson of Salt Lake City. |