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This reduction occurred despite the fact that there were three million more licensed drivers and four million more motor vehicles on the road in 1970 than in 1989. Deaths from public accidents are also on the decline. Public deaths decreased five per cent from 21,000 in 1969 to 20,000 in 1970. The decrease of 1,000 deaths can be attributed to fewer fire and burn fatalities, as well as fewer deaths due to falls and aviation accidents. This was the first fatality-free year in commercial air transportation. No passengers or crew members died on scheduled domestic air transport flights.
Preliminary figures indicate that snowmobile fatalities increased in 1970, however. | The 1970 death total for work accidents was unchanged from the 14,200 reported by the Council in 1969. Disabling injuries totaled 2,200,000. The cost of work accidents in 1970 was $9 billion. In addition to the 14,200 persons killed at work, 42,200 died in offthe-job accidents.
Since the Council was organized in 1912, the greatest progress in accident prevention has been
95.9%