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Show Pure Carelessness Causes Most Accidents ' Ninety per cent of all industrial, home, street and highway accid:nts ar? from trivial causes. I "Major violations of t'ae law and sorctacular acts of c -imiivil negli.-nc-i 'ijvccluco but a small fraction of tho total number of deaths and injuries that occur annually," declared Ma .us A. Dtav, emine"1", safety engineer "Boards left lying; on factory fl irs with nails sticking up In them caus3 more serious injuries than boiler cx-plosions.In cx-plosions.In private homes, more people are killed and seriously hurt by fall.ng down stairs than are killed and inju-ed in fires i "The majority of street accidents are caused by little acts of thoughtlessness j rather than by drunkenness or ot le violations of the" law in driving automobiles." auto-mobiles." !' A careful analysi", of street and high ;way accidents shows that about 13 per !cent are caused by backing up carelessly care-lessly to get out of parking spaces. Failure to get under proper control when approaching steet intersections causes another 15 per cent. Folic . 'in ; too close behind a vehicle to allow ipoper braking distance accounts for 1? 'per cent of accidents. Improper si3-1 si3-1 naling causes 10 per cent, and skidding eight per cent. Miscellaneous small acts of neglect cause 30 per cent, while drunkenness and other violations of the law cause only 10 per cent of ac-cidants. ac-cidants. i . |