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Show FOURTEEN THOUSAND AUTO FATALITIES Figures compiled by the national bureau of Casually and Surety Sure-ty Underwriters reveal that 14,000 people were killed in Americ;: l ist year as a result of automobile accidents. This represents an increase of 1,600, or I 2 per cent, over 1921 Automobile accidents in 1922, were responsible for (7 per cent ol all the vehicular fatalities within the last sixty years, mote than fom times the nttmcbr caused by railroad trains, and seven times thosi due to street railways. The only ray of sunshine in the report i't revealed in the fael that while the number of aut oniobilcs have increas'-d live loltl sinct I 9 I r), the total of automobile fatalities hi's little more than doubled Education apparently is the only remedy since Ir.ifdt. regul-.lioi has proved a failure. Carelessness tit railroad cros'singa is one ol the greatest causes of automobile fatalilis and this in spile of llw f 1( l j thiil transportation companies do everything in their power to ke- people off the I rack. |