Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 18

A—-16 = Accidents Took Toll 0f 101,500 Lives InU. S. Last Year 9,300,000 Were Injured; 40,000 Traffic Deaths Set All-Time Record Br the Associated Press. CHICAGO. Jan. 30.—Accidents rolled up this toll in the United | States last year: Killed—101,500 (including -40,000 traffic deaths, an all-time high). Injured—9.300.000. The cost—$3,750,000,000. The Nationa! Safety Council, which announced the figures today, gave this illustration of how they affect the Nation's war effort: Fatalities in the 20-45 year se- lective service age bracket totalled 26,000—equal to the destruction of nearly two Army divisions. Approximately 18,000 workers died in occupational accidents and an- other 29,000 were killed in off-the- job accidents—a loss of manpower sufficient to build 20 battleships, 200 destroyers and 7,000 heavy bombers. | Third Largest Toll. | Traffic accident deaths alone were | greater in each of nine months in 1941 than total casualties in the Pear]l Harbor attac The death toll the third larg- est on record and 5 per cent above the 96885 deaths in 1940. There were 110052 accidental deaths in 1936 and 105,205 in 1937. “Increased activity in all fields— largely attributable to the ever-in- | creasing tempo of national defense— was the key to the greater accident toll” the council said. The record 40,000 deaths in motor vehicle accidents was 16 per cent above the 34501 figure in 1940 and 357 above the previous high of 39,643 | in 1937. Traffic accidents also re- sulted in approximately 1400000 non-fatal injuries, about 110,000 of | which caused permanent disability. | Direct economic loss was estimated at $1.800,000.000. With deaths from this cause up 16 per cent and travel cnly 11 per cent greater, the mileage death rate rose 4 per cent. | Occupational Deaths Rise. Occupational fatalities climbed 6 | per cent from 17,000 in 1940 to 18,- 000. Home accident deaths dropped | 3 per cent from 33.000 to 32,000 and public fatalities (excluding traffic) declined 3 per cent from 15,000 to 14,500 The total of 9,300,000 injured in accidents was about 200,000 greater than in 1940 and meant that one of every 14 persons in the United | States suffered a disabling injury. | Four fatal crashes in scheduled air lines caused 35 passenger and 9 | plane crew deaths. The passenger | death rate of 24 per 100.000.000 miles was 23 per cent below the 1940 rate of 3.1 and with the exception | of the 1.2 rate in 1939, the lowest on record. 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