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Show AUTO CRASHES TAKING TOLL Total Number of Fatal Accidents Ac-cidents Larger, Ratio Is Smaller i (By m s, price ; NEW YORK. June 11. Twenty-' eight cities of t he United Stales re- j port an actual decrease In deaths ; from automobile accidents in 1921. j For the nation as a whole there I was an Increase In fatal accidents But the total was leas than preceding years In proportion to tho number,1 1 of vehicles on the roads. These points .ue brought out In I tho 1922 edition of "nets and Figures." Fig-ures." Just published by the National I Automobile chamber ot commerce. According to this authority, there1 were 10. 448. "532 automobiles tnfll trucks in the United States at the end, of 1921 These represented a gain of 13 per cent over the 1920 number. ) Yet the ratio of fatal accidents to this Increased number has declined Since 1917. the figures show, this proportion has been brought down from 19 deaths to less thun 12 for every 10.000 automobiles In use. While automobiles In use Increased in the last five years by over 100 per cent in proportion to population, deaths from motor accidents Increased Increas-ed only about 20 per cent, showing a marked Improvement In efforts to make motoring safer Of the 28 cities reporting redm -tions in fatalities from automobile a -cldents, Detroit showed a drop of l(ii deaths in 1921 from the 1920 figure Of 240. St. Louis showed a drop from 192 to 97. For the first 10 months of 19S0 and 1921 other cities reporting a decline de-cline in fatalities were: Okron. Ohio 26 to 1 C Atlanta. Ca 21 to 11 Bayonne, N. J 13 to 8 Berkeley. Cal 14 to I Bridgeport. Conn 83 to 21 Buffalo. N. Y 77 to 2 7 Cincinnati. Ohio 67 to 64 Cleveland. Ohio 120 to 96 Dayton. Ohio 15 to 12 lirand Rapids. .Mich IS to 11 Indianapolis. Ind 98 to .Txi Lansing. Mich : to 2 Milwaukee Wis 79 to D3 Minneapolis. Minn ....... 42 to 19 Newark. N. J 70 to 4 1 New Rochelle. N. Y 6 to .: Norfolk. Vo 12 to 9 Ugden, Utah 1 to 0 Pateraon, N. J 10 to 7 I'eorla. Ill 10 to 7 Plttsfield, Mass 11 to 1 Providgncaj n. 1 23 to 21 Richmond, Cal 2 to 1 Trenton. N. J 8 to 5 Youngstown. Ohio 19 to 11 Pittsburg. Pa,, also reported a decline de-cline in motor deaths, but definite flKures could not be given. |