| Show TRAFFIC DEATHS AND ALCOHOL statistics presented at the national safety congress which met in atlantic city recently disclosed some significant facts on the deaths of pedestrians and motorists who were intoxicated the statistics show that one out of every seven pedestrians who lost his life was intoxicated and one of each ten motorists was in the same condition these figures deal only with the fatalities of intoxicated pedestrians and drivers not the number of persons killed by intoxicated drivers nor the number of accidents due to the intoxication of either the pedestrian or the driver the problem of the intoxicated intoxicate d drivers and pedestrians is difficult of solution campaigns of education on rules and regulations regulation s by scores of cities have helped to reduce traffic accidents materially but such accidents due to alcohol seem to be beyond the effects of education and the law in the first because the victim for the time has largely lost control of his faculties and beyond reach of the law for several reasons among which are inability of police in many cases to prove intoxication on the part of the person accused and reluctance of juries to colv convict ic t responsible citizens who admit having been drinking but deny having imbibed too much A three year study on a nationwide scale reported to the safety congress points to simple scientific tests of determining the amount of alcohol in the blood as a hope hop of removing the in intoxicated pedestrian des trian and driver from traffie traffic |
