| Show AUTO D DEATH TH RATE DI DECLINES ES Tho The Tho beat best news we have havo heard in ina ina I Ia a l long ng time timo is the report that fewer I p people have p been killed in automobile automobile automo- automo bile accidents this tha year than last last i I At first glance It might seem that J Jis I is Ss merely because not so many of our people are driving cars but the Travelers Insurance Company keeps close track of or the figures of or automobile automobile automobile auto- auto mobile accidents since it is in the j I business of writing accident insurance insurance I ance ance says sas that while fewer cars are regist registered red and less gasoline is be- be be 1 I lug Ing bought the decrease in fatal accidents ac- ac c- c is even more marked than i those facts will account for i In seventeen states there has been beena a a. falling Calling off oft of 20 percent in the I nu number ber of ot automobile deaths Only I three e states show an increase ill to the I nu number ber of fatalities For the tho country country coun coun- I try as a whole the number of automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile deaths for the first ten I I j I months of or this year shows a decline j of f 15 16 per cent cent At the rate j I fewer than thirty thousand people will have been killed in or by automobiles auto auto- automobile mobiles mobile In 1932 This is mighty good news It It indicates that we are learning how to handle the most dangerous deadly deadly deadly dead dead- ly weapon that that- has ever been placed without restraint in the hands of oC children children- Irresponsible adults and drunkards Far more I Ii Ii i people are killed by the careless or or i Incompetent handling of ot automo automo- |
