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Show MOTOR RECKLESSNESS KILLS MANY During the year 1921, 57 persons were killed and 283 injured in grade crossing accidents in the six western states served by the Southern Pacific company, according to a report made public by R. J. Clancy, assistant to the general manager. This is a slight relative increase over the casualties for 1920, despite the safety campaign of the company. Clancy in his report shows, however, that had it not been for the tragedy of Proberta, Cal., where 13 high school students were killed, the number num-ber of fatalities for 1921, correlated to the number of registered automobiles automo-biles and locomotive miles for this year, would have shown a decrease of about 11 per cent. In 186 instances instead of being struck by trains, the automobiles ran into trains, primarily the result of approaching crossing at a speed so great that braking power was not sufficient to stop automobile before hitting train, resulting the four fatalities fa-talities and 88 injuries. Iu 85 instances crossing gates lowered low-ered to protect them from train were run through and broken, and in eight instances crossing flagmen, warning autoists of approaching trains were run down and injured. |