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Safety Campaigns
Are Paying Off
In Lives, Limbs
It's hard to believe, but driving is getting safer. According to t^c National Safety Council, the number of deaths in traffic accidents for 1954 is estimated at 36,500, compared with 38,300 in 1953 and a peak of 39,969 in 1941.
Over a longer period, the record is even more impressive. In 1935 there were about 26 million registered cars, trucks and buses and 36,369 people died in collisions. Now' there are more than 58 million vehicles, and yet the number of deaths is almost the same as it was 20 years ago.
Although average speed on interstate highways increased from 44 mph in 1946 to 52 mph in 1953, the death rate went down 28 per cent. Offsetting speed are new safety features in cars, better roads better driving. Cars are being equipped with faster brakes, automatic turn signals, tires that rarely blow’ out. better lights and vision. Courses in driving are offered bv more than one fourth of the high schools. Officials are cracking down on recklessness. Point systems are applied to chronic offenders to deprive them of licenses.
Does all this improvement mean your chances of being killed in anv given motor trip are decreasing? The answer is “yes”. Deaths per 100 million miles of driving were 15.9 in 1935, 8.1 in 1948 and 6.4 in 1954. -
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