UNITED STATES ROAD TOLL
LESS TRAFFIC DEATHS Because drivers have heeded at last the. plea to drive more carefully, the United States saved 0.070 lives on its streets ami highways m the first hall of this year, according to advice leeeivod recently. Each oi the first six months of this year showed a drastic reduction in traffic deaths compared with the same month last year. The six-month period brought a- 22 per cent, decrease in deaths from the first halt of 1087. ■ Should tlii- same percentage of decline continue through the last six months of the year, 8,71)0 lives would he saved, and the 1938 traffic death toll would he the lowest since 1928. Officials of the American.:•.'National Safety Council attribute ...then steady eight-month decline in. . traffic deaths to the fact that tliero'=J>its-''\b%ji':':itiore safety activity in the UniteiieStjitcs recently than ever before, wvitir, ai resultant awakening by drivers iamb pedestrians to their individualrbsp.prisibilitv and to the fie toll. -ifyiy.: .
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 107, 9 November 1938, Page 1
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159UNITED STATES ROAD TOLL Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 107, 9 November 1938, Page 1
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