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Show ( Safety Talks ) Like the Chicken, We TT BEGINS to look as though maybe we humans are second cousins to the chickens when it comes to crossing the road. Of 7,250 pedestrians killed during dur-ing 1937 in traffic accidents that occurred in cities, says the National Na-tional Safety council, in its 1938 edition of "Accident Facts," 85 per cent were struck while' crossing the road. About 2,900 persons were injured fatally while crossing a street somewhere BETWEEN intersections. intersec-tions. Approximately 3,260 met their death at intersections. Either they were crossing the intersection intersec-tion with the traffic signal, against the signal, diagonally, or were crossing an intersection at which there was no traffic signal. Deadly Dead-ly and tragic work at the crossroads! |