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Show THE ACCIDENT PICTURE. The complete 1931 accident "picture" "pic-ture" is an interesting study in contrasts. con-trasts. Motor vehicle deaths numbered 33,-000 33,-000 a new high record. Accidents were the second most important causes caus-es of deaths in men, heart disease be-j ing first. On the other hand, indus-' trial plants reduced employes' injury frequency rates 38 per cent in two years, and railway crossing accidents declined 10 per cent. In the past decade, industry has made amazing strides in preventing accidents and in lessening their severity. sever-ity. Part of this has been accomplished accomplish-ed by improved guarding of machinery. machin-ery. The larger part, however, has resulted from a new spirit of safety j first that has been instilled into workers and management alike. Precisely Pre-cisely the opposite has occurred on our highways. Recklessness grows, rather than slackens; improvements in, cars breed more deaths and injuries, injur-ies, not less. What has been done in industry can be done with automobile driving. Just as industrial management disciplines the heedless worker who endangers others, so must the state discipline the heedless driver. If industrial workers can learn the gospel of accident acci-dent prevention and take it to heart so that it becomes a part of their mental operations, so can the automobile automo-bile driver learn care, competence and courtesy. It is time to take drastic action to make our streets and highways safe. |