| Show Accident Rate Shows Decrease In By ASSOCIATED NEWS CHICAGO Accidents killed persons in the United States in 1961 and injured million others at an estimated cost to the nation of BUT THE National Safety Council said preliminary figures show the death toll from accidents was 2 per cent less than the figure of with reductions made in all general classifications motor work and Because of a 2 per cent population increase in the death rate was the lowest since records have been It was per the first time it dropped below it also carried a downtrend through the sixth consecutive The 1960 rate was TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS remained the nation's 1 violent taking This marked a 1 per cent decline from the 1960 toll of the first drop since Home accidents killed down 1 per A total of lost their lives in a 2 per cent Another died Ul public accidents excluding motor a 3 per cent The estimated billion in fatal and nonfatal accidents includes wage medical expenses and overhead costs of insurance for all production and damage to equipment in work accident and property damage from traffic accidents and Despite the reduction in accident one in every 20 persona in the U.S. suffered a dibbling Injury dining the There were five major catastrophic during the involving caused more than 50 deaths A third plane Hurricane Carla and midwestern floods took more than THE TOLL was the eighth largest These accidents also caused disabling injuries to another accounted for almost half of the total dollar cost to the an estimated the death total was almost under the 1941 record of and the traffic mileage death rate in 1961 was at a record low rate of deaths per million vehicle This was per cent better than the rate of |
