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Show 315,000 PEOPLE KILLED. P.etween now and 19-10, 190,000 people will be killed in automobile accidents. ac-cidents. The total fatalities for the entire decade that began with 1930 will be 315,000, and the injury record will touch 10,000,000. The fataLities will be greater than the total of the soldiers sol-diers killed in battle in the entire history his-tory of this countryand will surpass the battle casualties of the A. E. F. in the world war more than six times. The number injured will be fifty times the number of A. E. F. soldiers wounded non-fatally in action. That is what it is estimated will occur if the automobile accident record rec-ord during the next six years follows the experience of the past four. As a matter of fact, there is an excellent chance that the number of fatalities and injuries, will be greater still the accident curve . is tending upward, largely because of increased driving speeds. There is one way in which this ghastly forecast can be proven wrong. That is by an aggressive campaign on the part of responsible motorists to modernize and strengthen traffic laws, eliminate cars which are defective defec-tive in brakes, fights, steering and other essential parts, and to pass legislation leg-islation which enforces adequate examination ex-amination for drivers. So long as the reckless, the incompetent and the irresponsible, ir-responsible, rule the highways, as they do now, the lives and property of all other motorists are in constant danger. |