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Show ! RAILROADS REDUCE ACCIDENTS 1 During the pnjst year, the rail roads of the United States transported transport-ed 931.000,000 persons, or nearly nine times the population of ou. country. Number of people injured was 15 per cent less than the average to-.1 previous four years and there wad ', only one fatality for every 6,314,000 persons transported. Fatalities among am-ong employes also decreased mater-, mater-, tally, due to efforts of the railroada in installing safety devices and by i preaching the doctrine of "safety first." As a result of the 1924 campaign to eliminate grade crossings accidents, acci-dents, a falling off of 15 per cent Is shown, compared with the yearly average av-erage for the four years from 1920 to 1923. At the same time there was an incroa-o of SI per 'cent in number of motor vehicle registrations. "A person is in less danger today" says R. H. Alshton, president of the American Railway association, "speeding across the country at 6 0 miles an hour than he is In crossing a street in any of our principal clt ies." |