U.S. holidays may leave 600 dead
(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, September 6. People were dying at the rate of seven each hour on United States highways today, during the last half of the three-day Labour Day holiday week-end, United Press International reported.
The National Safety Council said that the death count was about the same as last year, when 612 people died over the long week-end. The council has estimated that between 600 and 700 people would die this year during the holiday period, which started at 6 p.m. on Friday and extends until midnight today.
It predicted that another 24,000 to 28,000 would suffer personal injuries. A United Press International count at 10 p.m. local time showed that 350
persons had died in traffic accidents since the holiday period began. It gave a breakdown of the accidental deaths as:—traffic, 350; drownings, 24; planes, 115; others, 30; total: 519. California had the highest number of traffic deaths, 26. Texas had 24; North Carolina and Ohio 21 each, and New York and South Carolina 15 each. The worst accident of the week-end occurred when 111 persons were killed in the crash of a Boeing 727 jetliner, in Juneau, Alaska, on Saturday night.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32705, 7 September 1971, Page 17
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