MOTOR ACCIDENTS
STARTLING FIGURES. NEW YORK, Wednesday. The Travellers’ Insurance Company predicts that there will be 23,000 deaths and 800,000 injuries next year, due to aui omobile accidents. The estimate, which is based on the records of the last two years, does not allow for the customary yearly increase. The 1925 and 1926 records show that someone was either killed or injured every fourteen seconds, and there was one death for each thousand ears. At this rate 400,000 will be killed in automobile accidents in the coining twenty years.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 December 1927, Page 5
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89MOTOR ACCIDENTS Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 December 1927, Page 5
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