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CASUALTIES IN U.S.A. LEVEL CROSSING MENACE. DEATHS OF CHILDREN. BY CABLE—PRESS . ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT;. Received 10.40 a.m. to-day. NEW YDRK, June 14. The National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters announced that automobile fatalities in the United States during 1925 totalled 22,500, an increase of approximately 2200 over 1924. This is considered a conservative estimate, is based on official figures in 197 cities, and it is believed that when the final reports are received the total will be even larger. Level railway crossings took a large toll, increasing from 1688 in 1924 to 1794 in 1925. The automobile death rate per hundred thousand of the population increased from 14.9 in 1923 to 15.7 in 1924, and 17.2 in 1925. There are indications that fatal motor accidents arc increasing in rate as -well as in number. There rvas an increase of nearly 2,500,000 automobiles between 1924 and 1925, the total in tlic latter reaching 19,954,000.
Deaths of children continue to be one of the most serious aspects of the situation, 6300 youngsters under the age of fifteen losing their lives in 1925.—Au5.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1926, Page 5
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