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Show Accidents In Traffic Take More Than War Traffic accident injury victims in this country, since Pearl Harbor, Har-bor, are placed at 3,100,000 by the National Safety Council, which points out that this figure is almost al-most five times the number of wounded in the nation's armed forces. for-ces. The number of Americans killed or maimed on the highways represents rep-resents a tragic loss to families involved and an economic loss to the entire nation. That we take it for granted that close to 100 individuals indi-viduals die every day as result of traffic accidents is a strange com- about the misfortunes of nearly everybody on the globe. It is difficult to understand the apathy of the average American to such a fearful toll. Apparently, everybody -should be interested in measures to save human life on forcement of traffic regulations, the highways by the strictest en-Despite en-Despite the fact that experience shows that such enforcement will reduce accidents and save lives, there is an amazing lack of public pub-lic interest in such enforcement. |