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Show Light Cuts Night Deaths "Light is essential for the safe movement of fast automobile night traffic. The accident records bear out this fact," said L. J. Schrenk, i general superintendent, Public Lighting commission, Detroit. There are few people better qualified quali-fied than Mr. Schrenk to speak on this subject because of the splendid accident reduction record made in Detroit, under his direction, during the last four years. "There are more than 100 persons alive today who would have been dead if adequate visibility had not been provided during the last three years on 31 miles of Detroit streets where the fatality rate was the highest. high-est. Had these streets been lighted six years ago and had the volume of traffic been equal to today's, aiad-ditional aiad-ditional 100 lives would have been saved," said Mr. Schrenck. Before the new lighting was installed, in-stalled, the right to day fatality ' ratio in Detroit was 7 to 1, and the installation of modern high visibility lighting reduced the ratio to 1.3 to 1. |