Show US U.S. Motorists Learn to Drive More Slowly CHICAGO American American motorists are learning to drive more safely according to the 1949 edition of the National Safety Councils Council's statistical cal yearbook Accident Facts The 1948 traffic volume was the greatest in the nations nation's history history 8 8 per cent greater than 1947 Yet the mileage death rate rate deaths deaths per vehicle miles was miles was the lowest in the nations nation's history The 80 rate was 30 per cent lower than the average rate of through World War II II If the higher rate had prevailed last year more lives would have been lost |