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repair broken bodies and disfigured faces, and other expenses.
But virtually unknown is the important fact that direct or hidden costs of streets and highway accidents reach into every home to the tune of $90 from the average family every year. That’s how much is being drained from each family purse in the nation as a whole. But the cost per family runs higher than the national average in 31 states. In 17—or more than half of this above-average group—the bill is well over $100. It ranges all the way up to $399.44 in Nevada!
Families in all ibut five states are laying out more than $1 a Week as their share. Specific bills for these accident losses may never turn up in their mailboxes, but the costs are levied against each family just the same, even though an accident does not kill or injure one of its members—even if they don’t own an automobile. That’s because the charges are passed on through increased taxes, wage losses, cost of insurance, medical and hospital bills, automobile and property damage repair charges and other items.
Any family can consider itself fortunate if it escapes the human misery of these accidents, which touch the homes of some 40,000 dead and 2,000,000 injured victims in a year’s time. But it must nevertheless help to share the burden of their economic costs, visible or invisible, running close to $4,000,000,000 annually.
Safer driving by all offers hope of lessening this big pinch on the average family’s purse. It will also diminish the threat of accidents to a family’s safety if it insists_ that its driver or drivers take no unnecessary chances while at the wheel. Constantly remind them: “Slow down—lives are in your .hands.” .'
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