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Show Many Texans Will 'Walk Themselves to Death' AUSTIN, TEXAS. Approximate-, iy 360 Texans will "walk themselves to death" this year, Texas Safety association predicts. Most of the victims will walk "ith the traffic and will come from behind parked cars to be struck down, the association reports on the basis of a study of fatal accidents. Other pedestrians will meet death while crossing at intersections agai'.ist the signal and while cross- ing diagonally across the street. Pedestrian fatalities increase around the hour of sunset in all seasons of the year, the survey shows, with the greatest number of mishaps between 7 p. m. and 8 p. m. during the summer months. The Saturday and Sunday toll constitutes consti-tutes approximately 50 per cent of the total pedestrian accidents. The survey covers fatalities during dur-ing the first six months of the year. |