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It seemsj that Dr. Booth’s wife was killed by a runaway horse and he swore that this dangerous means of locomotion had to go. At first glance, it would seem ironic that Dr. Booth could be so moved by j a tragedy involving a horse that he bent his energies towards replacing this animal with a mechanical monster, the drivers of which manage to kill about 40,000 people each year.
But let’s look back a minute. The year 1909 is said to be the horse’s peak year. Some expert has taken the information that there were 3,850 people' killed during the period in accidents involving
horse-drawn equipment,
the number of horses
the country, assigned an average 500 miles of travel pe.' year to each and come up with a horse mileage death rate of 30.0. Compare this to the nation's motor vehicle mileage death rate (deaths per 100 million miles of travel) of! about 5;4 last year! ' horses and estimated then
in
IHorses jean be dangerous because horses have a mind of their own and are sometimes unpredictable. A motor vehicle can “do only what its human operator causes it to do, and so we have about 49,000 trafa
year. fic deaths
68.5%