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Show ( Safety Talks 'Pedestrian Faults' HpHE National Safety council has charged pedestrians with a large share of the responsibility for traffic accidents that killed 39,-500 39,-500 persons in 1937. Of this total 15,400 were pedestrians. In "Accident Facts," a statistical statisti-cal review of 1937, the council said: "Many pedestrians show utter ut-ter lack of caution in their use of streets and highways. Combined state reports for 1937 show that in 67 per cent of all fatal pedestrian accidents the pedestrian either was violating a traffic law or was acting in an obviously unsafe manner. man-ner. In non-fatal accidents pedestrian pedes-trian faults appeared in 69 per cent of the cases." The council described such things as jay-walking, failure to observe traffic lights, drunken walking, walking with instead of against traffic on rural highways, crossing streets in the middle of a block as "pedestrian faults." |