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Show Why 36,000 Persons Died in The Year 1934 Last year there were 36,000 persons per-sons killed and nearly a million injur in-jur d as a result of 882,000 personal injury aut:mob'lo collis'ons on the streets and highways of the nation. These are abounding figures out the killing and maiming of people by automobile drivers has been going go-ing on so long that most of us take it for granted. In sp'te of insistent demand for stricter regulation of I drivers, mora rigcrcus enforcement I of traffic regulations and adequate inspection of vehicles the public apathy continues and officials take it easy. This laxity do's not exist in small plao s alne but in the large cities as well. To illustrate how one m'otcr'st can get by we cite the police record of cne Stephen Smith, recently convicted of maieslaught' r, hit-run driving and drunken driving driv-ing and given five years in prison at Philadelphia. What was Smith's past record? Well, he had been arrested fourteen times, but made his first appearance I in court after killing another man. j He had been fin' d, altogether, $11 although one cf his previous charges ' involved a h t-run killing, three in-; in-; eluded injury of ether persenc. ! -oven iuclud d collisiun?, seveial j irvolvfd drunkeivi's and two hit-' run driving. No wonder the reckless drivers, well awar- cf official laxity, continue to spread death, destruction and injury throughout the land. |
