Show LIVES SA SAVED VED For who like lIko to find rind silver linings considerable satisfaction can caI be found In the restrictions on onI I pleasure driving from the fact act that tho the number of deaths from automobile automobile auto auto- mobile accidents declined by hy 37 per percent percent percent cent during the first half haIr f r 1943 Records of the Metropolitan Lifo Insurance ce show that In tho th first six months of 1913 3 the mor mortality mortality mor mor- rate from automobile accIdents accidents accidents ac ac- ac- ac was per as against a rate of for the first six months of 1942 This means mean I approximately people were killed by automobiles In the tir first t I six months of oC 1943 as against apI approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap I proximately during the same period in 1942 Thus the restrictions on driving and the 35 hour an wartime speed limit can be credited with saving over 1000 lives per month Safety officials are studying this record with keen interest They realize that after the war there will be bo more cars taus and more speed than ever before before they hope to find some lessons In wartime restrictions restrictions restrictions re re- which will aid ald In saving lives when motoring returns to normal They know the solution cannot I Irest rest on limiting the use of ot auto auto- mobiles But unless safety measures es are worked out now which will apply to normal times It Is feared that in the war post-war era the automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile will be more destructive to human life lite th than n war Itself I Tr I |