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Show Drunken Drivers Increase According to the safety council's statistics, the number of drunken drivers involved in fatal accidents throughout the country increased from 7 per cent in 1933 to 11 per cent in 1939. And the number of drinking pedestrians in such accidents acci-dents increased from 8 per cent in 1933 to 15 per cent in 1939. The council's report also shows: In one of every five fatal accidents in 1939, driver or pedestrian had been drinking. drink-ing. One in seven pedestrians and one in nine drivers involved in fatal fa-tal accidents had been drinking. One in three fatal accidents at night involved in-volved drinking by driver or pedestrian. |