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Show Idaho Traffic Toll Takes 1,300 Lives In S Years Thirteen hundred lives have been sacrificed and more than ten thousand persons have receh ed injuries in-juries and an estimated ten million dollars property damage is Idaho's record for eight years, that traffic accidents have been kept. This was reported by the Safety Bureau of the Department of Law Enforcement. Enforce-ment. The death toll for the period peri-od was 1314 deaths, which includes the 191 in 1940, the state's all-time high and an increase of 17 per cent over the 163 in 1939. Records were kept in the Bureau of Vital Statistics for the four years, beginning 1933, but since 1937 the statistics gathering has been in the Law Enforcement Department. De-partment. Traffic fatalities for the eight years are : 1933, 116; 1934, 150; 160; 1936, 182; 1937, 178; 1938, 174; 1939, 163; and 191 in 1940. Reviewing the summary of Hie traffic accidents last year the Com. missioner called attention to the nature of some of the accidents. Non-collision was the greatest single sin-gle cause of fatal injuries, accoutring accoutr-ing for the death of S4 persons while the collision of two or more vehicles was responsible for 56 dead. Thirty pedestrians were killed kill-ed and 29 were injured. Seven persons per-sons died in 14 collisions between , motor vehicles and railroad. Five died when cars hit bridge abutments, abut-ments, trees or telephone polei. Five died in bicycle crashes ar.d one each in accidents involving a horse-dnawn vehicle, a lone hori-.e on the highway and a car hitting a wagon left;upon the highway. Most accidents were caused by defective brakes, defective steering gears, but vehicles with no defects are charged with figuring in accidents acci-dents that caused 124 deaths ai;d inuries; to 639 persons. City drivers figured in 142 deaths, from the country 12 deaths and out of the state drivers 18 deaths. |