| Show C SAFETY TALKS Pedestrian Faults' Faults THE THE National Safety council has charged pedestrians with a large share of the responsibility for traffic accidents that killed 39 persons in 1937 Of this total were pedestrians statistical In Accident Facts a cal review of 1937 the council said Many pedestrians show ut ut- utter utter ut- ut utter ter lack of caution in their use of streets and highways Combined state reports for 1937 show that in 67 per cent of all fatal pedestrian accidents the pedestrian either was violating a traffic law or was acting in an obviously unsafe man man- ner In non-fatal non accidents pedestrian pedestrian pedestrian trian faults appeared in 69 per percent percent percent cent of the cases The council described such things as walking jay-walking failure to toI observe traffic lights drunken I walking walking with instead of against traffic on rural highways crossing streets in the middle of a block as pedestrian faults |
