Slight Decrease in Accidents Reported Last Year Although during the summer it appeared. as though the traffic statistics {or 1995 would be exceeded in 1034, 2 sharp decline In the autumn and cally months caused the annual record. feel dents to fall fourteen short, Dut-{ng 1034, the total came to 13,587, as compared with the previous "twelve months of 13671, Tightening of {rat supervision on main arteries pecially at dick, is aid to have been the greatest factor in holding the total down, 'A deplorable factor in the statistics for' December was the number of children injured—ot 387 persons injured, 243 per cent. were under Those seriously injured totalled per cent, of the total, while the fatalifies were eleven, Reverting to the yearly record, it] "Ah, then you saw them. I will be noted. that, whereas 120 per-fons lost their' lives in road accidents {in 1934, during the previous year a considerable decrease was reported, the total being 107. The number of injured in the years of comparison approximated 400. October 1934 set the record for accidents, whi Pepiring December 1089, no less tha ruary was the minimum with 924
1.288 accidents came to offeial attention 9s compared with 1,125 last year. {nr these 1,008 motor cars" were involved.
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