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Show Speed Causes Four Out of Ten Traffic Deaths - - - r?i7.3 OM u j , voROMfi SIDE Exceeding the. speed limn was! , OF ROAD again the greatest single cause J 7:sr- of accidental death on the high- 14.9 5""oS-- ways last year, according -to RECKLESS ,5iT7 "Here Today,", eleventh annual drivimg z.s10-' Xy highway safety booklet just pub- AD NOTViSilhc V lished by The Travelers Insur- have ance Company. wav0F" Pointing out that motorists ex- Exceeding the . speed limit was again the greatest single cause of accidental death on the highways high-ways last year, according -to "Here Today ,", eleventh annual highway safety booklet just published pub-lished by The Travelers Insurance Insur-ance Company. Pointing out that motorists exceeding ex-ceeding the legal speed limit caused two deaths out of every five and that speed "too great for existing conditions" caused nine out of ten deaths, the booklet book-let asserts that more drivers lose their lives in the lottery of speed than in any other gamble they take with an automobile. Exactly 40 per cent of all deaths in 1940 for which drivers were responsible were the result of illegal speed. Other dangerous practices brought to light in the analysis are: Driving on the wrong side of the road (this killed 4,150 and injured 123,830) ; reckless driving (this killed 3,580 and injured 100,770); and failure to observe or grant the right of way (this killed 3,000 and injured 235,700). |