The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-11-06
SOME SIMPLE RULES
FOR LIFE SAVING.

This paper recently offered some
suggestions regarding the parking
of cars and for crossing streets in
/ tended to reduce in some degree the
dangers of accidents. Aroused by
the fact that in 1928 nearly seven
times as many Industrial policy
holders in each 100000 were killed
| by automobiles as in 1911, one OF
the leading life insurance COM
panies Of the United States has sent
out pamphlet to its policy-holders
containing certain life saving
rules, as follows:
Rules for walkers: Cd Look
where you are going to the left and
to the right as well as straight
ahead. (2) Cross only at crossings;
most people are run over in the
middle of the block. CD Wait for
the traffic policeman's signal in
crowded districts. CD Be careful
in outlying districts; many accidents
occur on residential streets. go
Remember the motorist cannot see
you at night until 1t is often too
late to stop. co Do not dash
around street car; another car or
auto may be coming.
Rules for drivers: % Watch
out for children on roller skates or
playing ball. CD Keep your mind
and your eyes on duty; be twice as
careful on rainy day; cars skid
and umbrellas shut off pedestrians
view. (3) Signal when turning
corners or slowing down. ca Do
not try to beat street car or train
across the track. 60 Avoid pass
ing street car to the left or cross
ing a track behind it, or passing a
standing car loading or unloading
passengers. co Go slowly when
approaching a blind corner, a sharp
curve or hill or railroad track.
In this connection many of the
leading newspapers of the country
within the past few days have cited
with approval the action of Chi
cago judge, who last week forced
nineteen automobile speeders to ride
in a patrol wagon to the hospital
and view a part of the suffering
by themselves and others
whose chief object in life is the
qualification of a mania for speed |
Commenting upon the courts action
the Salt Lake Tribune says:
1.-THE judge properly pointed out
that the imposition of heavy fines
and even of Jail sentences have
seemingly served to but little pur-
pose in checking the volume of the |
red tide of death and destruction |
that in the city of Chicago alone |
this year has taken nearly 500 lives. |
one may note that in |
our. own state and vicinity there is !
cause for a deep sense of shame in |
the record of auto casualties for the |
current year, which, for Salt Lake |
City, Ogden, and the highway be-
tween the two cities, now totals
twenty-nine deaths, with 726 in
jured."
A total of 14,412 deaths from &C
cidents during 1928 caused by auto
mobiles and other motor vehicles,
motorcycles, is shown in
statistics assembled by the census
bureau covering the death registra-
ton area of the United States, which
contains 87.6 per cent of the total
population.
This total represents a death rate
If 14.9 per 100000 population,
compared with 1875 in 1922, lis in
1921 and 1914 in 1920.
California topped the list with a
ate of 1926 deaths per 100000
population and Wyoming was second
With a rate of PAL Among sixty
light cities for which statistics were
Camden, N. j., led with a
ate of 1874 and Scranton, Pa, was
econd with 1872.