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Show You're Safer On The Street Than At Home Traffic traditionally the No. 1 accident killer in America-has America-has lost its dubious distinction according to the 1948 edition of the National Safety Councils statistical yearbook, "Accident FaThere were 32,300 motor vehicle ve-hicle accident deaths in 1947 and 1,150,000 injuries. This was a three per cent reduction in deaths from 1946, and put home accidents in the number one spot last year, with 34,500 deaths and 5,200,000 injuries The Council pointed out that the 1947 traffic volume was 10 per cent greater than in 1946, and was greater than in any previous year. . Therefore, the lower death total in 1947 resulted re-sulted in the lowest annual mileage death rate in history 8.6 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle miles. |