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Show FATAL ACCIDENTS FEWER ON" UNITED STATES ROADS Analysis of the latest . Interstate Commerce Commission figures on the annual accident records of all railroads rail-roads in the United States shows that fewer people were killed in 1920 than in any year since 1S98. The analysis, an-alysis, prepared by a committee or the American Railway association, gives credit for this achievement to the combined efforts of the officers and employees of the railroads, the public and the press in systematic safety education. Tn 1919 the ratio of passengers carried safely to passengers fatally injured was 4.529.000 and in 1920 was 5,673.000 to one. Although the total number of employes em-ployes have steadily decreased. |