Show Saving Life With Better Light The American Public Works association recently reported on ton surveys showing the effectiveness of better street lighting In the reduction n of traffic accidents In Detroit 58 persons were killed in 15 months on 31 miles of cf f city streets When these streets were lighted traffic fatalities fatalities fatali fatall- ties dropped to 13 in the following 18 months That was a drop from approximately four fatalities a month to less than one fatality a month month month-a a remarkable saving in human life In Hartford Conn there was an even more striking record i During a three and a half year period 32 pedestrians were killed at night on 10 miles of city streets ts same streets were lighted only one pedestrian death occurred in a similar period Think of it Pedestrian fatalities were reduced from 32 to one Not only does better lighting save the lives of pedestrians and reduce the overall fatality t toll ll it helps to reduce automobile collisions At 25 of Los Angeles' Angeles outlying Intersections collision accidents dropped 78 per cent when high level sodium lighting was installed Traffic fatalities dropped from 12 during a year to one death in the following year Salt Lake City has had similar experience although perhaps per haps not as spectacular We did however reduce fatalities on one three-mile three stretch from 12 to 1 in a year following safety lighting On another street fatalities we were e reduced 76 per cent from the previous s nighttime average of nine deaths annually Safe Safety y lighting pays in the prevention of d death ath injury and accidents on the highway It can easily be demonstrated that the cost of such lighting is more than repaid in the actual dollars dollars- and cents and cents savings in wasted life Hee hospital and medical bills lost earnings and damaged motor vehicles Russia's whole foreign policy as I see it is founded on a desire for security President Eduard Benes of Cz Czechoslovakia kIa |