Show SAFETY TALKS J what are you going to do IT DEPENDS on whether youre going to kill someone or ju just st injure him if the automobile accident you may nave next week is going to do a lethal job the chances are your car will strike a pedestrian on the other hand if only nonfatal injuries are inflicted its an odds on bet that bump smack into another motor vehicle national safety council statistics for 1937 show that when a traffic accident produces a fatality the collision is between a car and a pedestrian in 39 per cent of the cases collisions between two motor vehicles produce 26 per cent of the fatalities with other types of collisions contributing smaller numbers to the total however the council says it is collisions between two or more motor vehicles that produce the bulk of nonfatal non fatal injuries 53 per cent or cases in 1937 collisions between a motor vehicle and a pedestrian produce the next largest number of nonfatal non fatal injury cases 25 per cent or cases in 1937 traffic accidents killed pedestrians and deaths occurred as the resua result of collisions between two or more motor vehicles |