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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 1, 1927)

Stop—Look—Listen!

Stop—Look—Listen!

It is estimated that fifty-nine persons were killed each day, in the United States, in automobile accidents during December, or a total of 1,830 for the month (says Detroit-Toledo and Ironton Railroad News). With the exception of one week in July, the accident graph of 1926 prepared by the Department of Commerce stands considerably higher than the similar one for the preceding year. And for January, 1927, the curve of the graph rises steadily, showing an increase in automobile fatalies over 1926.

Concerning accidents of all kinds in the United States during 1925, even more disquieting figures were revealed by Mr. Charles Hill, General Safety Agent for the New York Central Railways, as reported in a cable message on 27th April. He announced that in the United States during 1925, 90,000 persons were killed and 2,500,000 injured in accidents of all kinds. A fourth of these were children under fifteen years of age—246 of whom were killed each day, and 7,000 injured.

If any evidence were needed of the necessity for Safety First work and the urgent desirability of carrying its principles into effect, these figures of appalling loss of life—a loss so largely preventable and which in a varying ratio is occurring in all countries to-day—supply that evidence with particular emphasis.