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Show STOP, LOOK AND -LISTEN AND ENJOY VACATION Stop, look and live. That's the advice given summer sum-mer motorists by the National Safety Council as it reported a 4 percent increase in grade crossing cross-ing fatalities during 1945. Last year 2,074 persons met death at grade crossings, while 4,275 were injured. Contrary to general belief, there, were more daylight accidents than ' nighttime, with 56 percent occurring occur-ring before darkness set in. Only 285 of the fatalities were pedestrians pedestri-ans and 50 other people such as bicyclists; the remainder involved motor vehicles. The Council revealed that more than one-third of the accidents occurred at crossings which were protected by gates lights, bells or watchmen, and nearly two-thirds involved trains moving at less than 30 miles per hour, or standing stand-ing still. The great majoity, 87 percent, of daytime grade crossing accidents were classified as "locomotive "lo-comotive hit cars," while 55 per cent of the night mishaps were in this category. About one-third of the night accidents were "car nits other part of train." |