AMERICA'S JUGGERNAUT.

Shannon News, 20 November 1923, Page 3

AMERICA'S JUGGERNAUT.

- MOTOR-CAR FATALITIES. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. Nowhere in the world is the popularity of the automobiles more marked than in the United States, but fatalities through its Use are accumulating every' year, and a terrible death-roll has ju)st been recorded! the accidents in' the. United States during 1922 having exacted a toll of approx- : imately. 75,300 human lives, according to a report presented/ at the. National Safety Congress held in Buffalo, New York State. The statistics showed an, increase of nearly 2000 fatalities over the estimated number for the previous 12 months.

> Th|e report credited the automobile with the largest entry in "the annual accident mortality budget—l4,ooo for 4922, 18 per cent, of all fatal accidents for that. year. The. committee:, estimated that during each day in 1922, 206 American citizens were killed by accident., Of this daily .number 38 were automobile fatalities.- Accidental falls' came second with 35. Drowning and burns totalled W and 16 re.'Louis "I. Dublin, choir man of public accident statistics committee, in announcing flgunes. for 49 cities in which the annual accidental/ ideafch' rate had ben studied, asserted that Los Angeles ranked highest m fatalities with 32.5 accidental deaths per, 100,000 of population: /- ■; ■ ■■■ "= ,•