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Show Grade Crossing Deaths Gain as Train Schedules Speed Up Concurrent with the p.ciam of ,roaUy .spcedec.-up tiain scheduler. I there has been a substantial ain ir. the number of i.rade crossiru: fatalities. Dr. Styles Wheny. pres-l' pres-l' cnt of the Utah Mot rlst A-s-oci-aticn pointed out. This tracic in ease." D. . Wherry 1 1 declared, "has taken place despite 'the Federal grade cros-sing ehmin-; ehmin-; ation pre pram which already has resulted in the lemcval of some 1300 riocle crasinir hazards and j despite the mast Intensive highway ' :afety pron'.am In histo'.y. ; Naturally, the tremendously in-! in-! cionscd volume .f meter travel, re-' re-' sultinir ir' preater accident-exposure, lias had a part in this picture ibut tc mv mind It is significant p that lat.i'ities frcm all hichway 1 -.r H'.ents are slithtly leis than 1 thev we e last year despite the 1 denser traffic. Against this im-' im-' r.-.. ved record is an increa:e of 3 ' per cent in grade crossing deaths, and a gain of 5 pcicent ir. grade crossing ace-idents during the first six months of this ;ea-.-. Fatalitie; at cos ings in June were 16 pei cent abeve the June. 1035. total. Tcday. with wide ad ption ol strearr.lining. electrif icaticn and much faster train schedules, the hazards are proportionately increased in-creased and cauticn must be redoubled. re-doubled. "The Federal Government i; rou ing hundreds of millions ol dollars into (Trade crossing elimination elimin-ation work, but necessarily much time must elapse be?:re an appreciable appre-ciable dent is made in the nation'; 234.000 railhlghway intersections. "Trying to beat modern locomotives loco-motives "to the crossing is one ol the most dangerctil of all highwaj practices. More than ever before mctciists must depend' for theii safety on the age-cld warning 'Stop, Look, and ListeiV " |