Milford News | 1949-10-27 | Page 6 | U.S. Motorists Learn to Drive More Slowly |

Type	issue
Date	1949-10-27
Paper	Milford News
Language	eng
City	Milford
County	Beaver
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Article Title	U.S. Motorists Learn to Drive More Slowly
Type	article
Date	1949-10-27
Paper	Milford News
Language	eng
City	Milford
County	Beaver
Page	6
OCR Text	Show U.S. Motorists Learn to Drive More Slowly CHICAGO. American motorists are learning to drive more safely, according to the 1949 edition of the National Safety Council's statistical statisti-cal yearbook, "Accident Facts." The 1948 traffic volume was the greatest in the nation's history 8 per cent greater than 1947. Yet the mileage death rate deaths per 100 000 000 vehicle miles was the lowest in the nation's history The 8 0 rate was 30 per cent lower than . the average rate of 11.5 through World War II. H the higher rate had prevailed last year, 14,000 more lives would have been lost.
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cr89zt/22414792