DEATH BY MOTOR.
AMERICA'S BAD RECORD.
OVER 11,000 IN A YEAR.
(ST CASLB—PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPT3U3HT.) (AIJSTR ALIAS AXD H.I. CABLE ASSOCIATIOH.)
(Received December 3rd, 9JX) p.m.)
WASHINGTON, December 2
That the automobile is proving an outstanding instrument of death, as well as a means of pleasure and business, is indicated by the Census Bureau's report.
It states that 11,005 deaths occurred through motor accidents in the United States in 1922, representing an increase of 1499 over the figures for 1921. California's death-rate is the highest, being 26 per hundred thousand of the population. Mississippi is lowest, with 3.4 deaths per hundred thousand. Three persons are killed daily through automobiles in New York City, but its deathrrate is only half that of Los Angeles, which is 29.5 per hundred thousand.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17937, 4 December 1923, Page 7
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