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Show ( Safety Talks ) What Are You Going to Do? TT DEPENDS on whether you're going to kill someone or just injure him. If the automobile accident you may JTave next week is going to do a lethal job, the chances are your car will strike a pedestrian. On the other hand, if only nonfatal non-fatal injuries are inflicted, it's an odds-on-bet that you'll bump smack into another motor vehicle. National Safety Council statistics statis-tics for 1937 show, that when a traffic accident produces a fatality, fatal-ity, the collision is between a car and a pedestrian in 39 per cent of the cases. Collisions between two motor vehicles produce 26 per cent of the fatalities with other types of collisions contributing contribut-ing smaller numbers to the total. However, the Council says, it is collisions between two or more motor vehicles that produce the bulk of non-fatal injuries 53 per cent or 725,000 cases in 1937. Collisions Col-lisions between a motor vehicle and a pedestrian produce the next largest number of non-fatal injury cases 25 per cent or 335,000 cases. In 1937 traffic accidents killed 15,400 pedestrians and 10,300 deaths occurred as the result of collisions between two or more motor vehicles. |