AMERICA’S JUGGERNAUT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1923, Page 4

AMERICA’S JUGGERNAUT

MOTOH-CAI; FATA f,!TJ K;4. SAX FKAXCISCO. October I. Nowhere in the world is the popularity oi the automobile more marked than in the I nited States, but fatalities through its use are accumulating even' year, ami a terrible death-roll has jn-’i been recorded, the accidents in the United States during 1922 having exacted a toll of approximately 75.399 human lives, acording to a report presented at the National Safety Congress held in Buffalo. Xew York State. Ihe statistics showed an increase oi nearly 2093 fatalities over the estimated number for the previous twelve months

The report credited the automobile with the largest entry in the animal accident mortality budget 14,000 iler 1922. 18 per cent, of all fatal accidents !?*r that year. Tile committee estimated that during each day in 1922. 28(1 American citizens were killed by accident. Of this daily number 38 were automobile fatalities. Accidental falls came setoud with 35. Browning and burns totalled 19 and 1(5 respectively. Louis I. Dublin, chairman of the public accident statistics committee, in announcing figures for 49 cities in which the annual accidental death rate had been studied, asserted that Los Angeles ranked highest in fatalities with 32.5 accidental deaths per 100.000 of population.