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Show All Sorts Of Ways To Get Killed On Fourth If You're Not Careful Going somewhere over the Fourth of July? If you are, then plan your trip safely. But even if you stay home, keep safety in mind for the Fourth of July holiday holi-day one of the most dangerous weekends of the year. That is the advice of the National Nat-ional Safety Council, which is coordinating a nationwide campaign cam-paign to hold down the usual upsurge of accidental deaths during the Independence Day celebration. One hundred and thirty national organizations, as well as state and city public officials, of-ficials, are cooperating in the effort. Motor vehicle accidents lead the list of holiday hazards, the Council said. Drowning from swimming and fishing accidents ac-cidents is the second biggest risks. Other deaths are due to fireworks and. firearms, sunstroke sun-stroke and heat exhaustion, food poisoning, falls and miscellaneous miscellan-eous accidents. The death toll for the month of July last year was 8,700, the Council said. While it is impossible im-possible to determine the exact number of deaths from all causes occurring during the Fourth of July holiday, the Council said the total was well above the average av-erage for other days of the month. The Council . expects more pleasure-seeking holiday mo torists tO pile 1I1LU II1U1C Laia roll up more miles during this one weekend celebration than ever before in the nation's history. his-tory. More than 33 million motor mo-tor vehicles will be on the move during the holiday. The increasing in-creasing number of new cars, on the road and the substantial rise I in gasoline consumption this year indicate a heavy c'.:;ath t0ii unless everyone is fully aware of the holiday hazard:; and makes a real effort to avoid them. "There are two ways to hold down deaths during a holiday period such as the Fourth," said Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council. "One is for police, beach guards and others who have some authoritative control over public safety to be especially alert and vigorous in their enforcement en-forcement of sane rules of public behavior. "The other is for all of us to ' recognize that holidays are : danger days, and to drive a car, : walk across the street, swim, fish or otherwise conduct ourselves 1 in a safe and prudent manner. "If everyone would keep in mind the words 'Take It Easy on the Fourth Be Alive on the Fifth', this Fourth of July would bring much less tragedy and much more pleasure. |