New Britain herald., 1925-03-23

 BANE OF HIGHWAYS
Blamed for i4,55s Accidents in
 Yar..76S Crashes Here

Hartford, March :s.-Recklessness of motorists Is held to have been responsible for 14,55s of 20,7S0 acci- dents reported to the state motor vehicle department during the past year, final analysis of which has been completed by department in- vestigators. Carelessness of child pe- destrians caused 1,10s accident, &C., cording to the record made public in the March bulletin of the depart ment; carelessness of adult pedes- trians, 1,260i contributing careless ness of motormen, bicyclists, team- sters, gatemen and animals. 1926; defective equipment, LIS; and care lessness of occupants. 2is, the re- mainder being due to miscellaneous causes, such as weather conditions, road obstruction, ignition of gas and defective highways.
 1nattention constituted the reck- lessness charged against APPS of the drivers, failure to grant the right of way. 3,566; sktdding, 1,7S6; driving on the wrong side of the road, 1,169; careless backing, S53; inexperience, 62s; failure to signal. SIS; following too closely, 4s6; excessive speed for conditions, 405; intoxication, cSe: cut ting in, 26e; runaway car, 131: con- fusion, 122; cutting corners, TIT; passing on the wrong side of vehi- cles, 57; passing on curves, 26; pass ing standing trolley cars, 14; passing on hills, 13; improper parking, 12: and attempts to beat railroad trains, 2.
 Children Crossing Streets.
 Most of the carelessness on the part of children was in crossing street, children being injured in 545 such cases. Stepping from behind one vehicle into the path of another re- suited in the death of seventeen children and injury to SIS others; ten were killed and 13s injured play ing the street, three were killed and 51 hurt coasting. two were killed and eighteen injured because they be- came confused and nine were hurt in boarding or leaving trolley cars.
 Except for the fact that sS adult pedestrians owed their injuries and four their deaths to intoxication, the carelessness of grown-up pedestrians manifested itself in the same kind of circumstances as that of the children listed. Twenty-e eight were killed and 746 injured crossing the street and four were killed and 272 hurt when they stepped from behind one ve- hicle into the path of another.
 Record of Four Cities
 The motor vehicle fecord of every city and town in the state for the past year is included in the depart ment bulletin. The number of mo- tor vehicles registered from each and the number of convictions, sus- pensions. and complains for motor vehicle law violations are given in a ldl SC tdplcs Ildl LlOIus "IlCI the most accidents, S.6S6, as against 19,917 cars registered, reported s70 convictions and the department sus- pended sos Hartford operators whereas New Haven, the largest city of the state, having 2O,526 cars reg istered. reported 2,s47 accidents and 1890 convictions and the suspension Of 1.146 New Haven operators Is shown, while Bridgeport, the second largest city, which had 16,4o6 cars registered, reported 1901 accidents and 1,1S3 convictions, and 6sS of its operators were suspended.
 In New Britain there were f,1sl cars registered. There were 7sS ac- | cidents and 4e0 convictions. The number of drivers having their li- censes suspended was $40.