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Show Death List Grows In spite of all warnings and pleas for caution in the operation of automobiles, auto-mobiles, little progress in the direction direc-tion of safety is being made,' if a recent re-cent report of the Department of Commerce is representative of general gen-eral conditions. This report covers deaths from automobile au-tomobile accidents in 78 large cities, over a period of several years. It shows that deaths during tne foul weeks ending November 2, 1929, in these 78 cities reached a total of M40. For the four weeks ending November 2, 1929, in these 78 cities reached a total of 840. For the four weeks ending end-ing March 27, 192C, the number of deaths In the same cities was only 340. For the year ending on Novembei 2 last the number of deaths in these cities was 8,424, as against 7,250 during dur-ing the preceding year, an increase of 16 per cent in 12 months. When to the appalling total of deaths is added the number of permanently per-manently crippled and other seriously serious-ly Injured persons, to say nothing of the property damage involved, the menace of the careless driver may be seen as one of our most serious national na-tional problems. |
