New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1924, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1924, { months of number in ¢ 1924 compared with the | 12 corresponding period | REPORTS ONMORE = THAN 13,000 CASES (Continued from First Page) il ing the seriousness of motor vehicle amt will arouse a determination to materially reduce the number.” Prevention of Accidents “In attacking th prevention of acc 3 of people are to be considered the criminally irresponsib! anad hesdless, relatively sm ber; but exceedin, dang: sponding to no appeal and only by the semse of fear cipline; second, th w total numt total number Increase fn Fatal Accidents : number of fatalities due” to tor vehicle accide from tfrom a ! from 941 in The number of accidents due ‘to motor vehicles in the perfod from 1910 to 1923 «¢ accldents uf th F.‘J. rate increa times as many dea Who Are To Blame. 1ts, more than e the fault 0 (22.8 per of other per- Of the 16,500 accid [ t) were due to | and the remain- nt) were due to Iting in death us pr ry 47 per cent were the fault of the operator: 46 per cent were the fault of other persons; 3 per cent were due to defective e nd 4 per eent to all oth- tistics for the first three 924 shows that 32 per ent of fatal or serious accidents were due to the operator; and 61 per cent to other persons. inj times as many acei- registration | were two proportion to | 22 e.not been de { vehicles to April 1, Skidding 26; vision ohscured 20, ton‘mer the traffic on its highways, and |ficult, he said. The minimum penalty fast for conditions 14; Inattention §; inexperience 8; tntoxication 6; trying to beat train 6; wrong side of road 5; leaving road 5: fallure to give right of way 4; confused mentality 4; fail- ure to signal 1; too close to another veh or object 1. The remaining tely classified. The number of deaths from motor number for the corresponding period of 1923 by 29 so that if the number for the remaining 9 months of 1924 is nefther greater nor than for the | corresponding 9 months of 1923 the total number of deaths for 1924 will be 299. From present indications the | number will be considerably over 300. JUDGE MALTBIE ON 1924, exceeds the | |its relation to the making d en- forcement of traffic laws, Judge Maltbie declared that of the flood of new laws are but mo- | difications of previous provisions ladop(ad because of injustice in a |particular case, any changa of the law “is but an infiluence but not in- cident to the establishment of a rule which works the greatest good to the greatest number,” he said, to change good. | Dislikes Minimum in determining the wisiom of enact- | ment of traffic laws, he said, and max- ‘lmum penalties may well be propor- tloned to the danger involved in the |act forbidden. It was well to penalize | more severly crimes sthe detection or shment of which is unusually dif- raost | Negligence is“the important factor | "n as rarely justifiable, the modern |power to suspend sentgnce rendering it generally nugatory and impeding courts to exercise of a wise discretion and a proper regard for the mitiga- 'VN" circumstances which sometimes | al but destroy guilt. It was true to fix them gives a broader power to the | court, he said, but the remedy for any evil resulting therefrom lay not in the fixing of the penalties but in the pro- | per constitution of the court. it is llkely to do more harm nmnlw Dock to Be Moved London—A wonderful feat of trns- | portation will take place shortly. This will be the removal of a glant floallng dock from England to Singa- pore, a distance of 8,000 miles, The dock is 9,000 feet long and is needed | for a new naval base. AmorHorhcks - The ORDGINAL Malted Milk Safe Milk For Infants, Invalids, Children, @ The Aged Digestible=No Cooking. A Light Lunch Avoid Imita Subatitut oB&BIN \-n.s.mmn\ from | nestly striving to be care from pn\axel those who are ignorant or i this class comprising by far the est. rope loss from “It is our hope that these s i ccidents incrcased may be used to show people 0 400 in 1918 to more be careful—what are the most fre- jp 192 quent causes of accidents and conse- | property loss from quently what people must do and |ig rapidly approaching one must net do in order to avoid acci- insurcd fire dents.” | Pecuniary Tlustrating his statistics with gra- estimated at four mi s phic charts and pictures, Prof. Tracy |ip yregented the following summary of Stutis accidents, their cause, reasons for the unexpeeted increase, the colossal loss of property through accidents, indi- cating where they occur, and analyz- .| ing their causes: | Summary of Accidents A sumnrary of statistics of aceidents fa due te motor vehicies in Connecticut in 1923, follows: More than 17,000 nts in ing only those which ted in sonal injury or in damage to property In excess of $10.00 Two hundred and killed, 800 seriousiy than 3,500 slightly injured rate is proportionately greatest for children under 10 years of age and next greatest for elderly people 1k of accidents for One accident in 22 resulted in death an hour hefore and after midnight. or in serious personal mjury. | Where Accldents Ooeur Nearly 50,000 accidents reported | rly 11t of the total num- during the last six years. accidents occurred in the seven Increase In The Total Number llargest cities—New Haven, Hartford, Total number increased from 2,000 | RBridgeport, Waterbury, New RBritain, f» 1918 to 16,500 in 1 New London and Meriden—the com- | Number has doubled In the last two |Lined population of which 1is about | years, ne-half that of the state. Expressed in percentage of registra- The fatal accidents #lon, accidents have increased from |largest cities were only five per cent in 1921 to nearly nine of the fatal ts in the state per cent in 1923 (One car in 12 in The p ortion, however, for the same | azr) cities for the first threa months of &n accident in 19 Number of accidents for first t} ree [1924 s much larger, L.e., 60 per cent. Strike Threatens to Delay England’s Exhibition icles as from typhoi S Pecuniary Loss TRAFFIC PENALTIES - (Continued from First Page) ely 1-3 of the amxlvn!l' en, Hartford and Bridge- | port (cities on the main trunk line) | stered in states orns Don'lPan Them! dangetous. ills the pain rty motor there. Give it power and dignity and dafective ‘I! will be apt to draw to its adminis. | tration men of lhllll) and standiog : defective steer- | m their comraunities.” headlights 613 | | After discussing “police power” un- light 69; miscellansous de- | dér which he sald, the state exercises Defective equipment was |and regulates the ownership and responsible for 5 fatal accidents and | operation of motor vehicles, control <o . KEEPYOUR SCALP Clean and Healthy WITH CUTICURA motor -half of the to buted as follows: Blue. instantly, d-m the com loosens and comes out. No risk,no constant trou- ble. Get Bluc-jay st your druggist. Blue-jay equipm ting from deaths gefective of dol from 1 of use of Motor . gon' 13 wi £ | sonal inj When Accidents Ocour | er of accidents | ur during ymer and early reaching the peak in August. last 9 months of the vehi | oc largest cit tons were distrib- | uted approximately as follows: “'lth‘ other motor vehicles 4700 (including | with pedestrians 1400; | with mnycxu, ear motor eveles): ¥ 1a) with trolley cars 650; ing other days of the week. r\»lr\n: January and February ‘192‘ The latter part of the ernoon IS the total nifmber of accidents was | the period of the day when the most s34 and the causes were distributed | ccidents occurred and the peak was as follows: Disregard of rules 36.8 | ached at appre tely 5 o'clock per cent; gkidding 13.7 per cent; Qn. thron ut the attention 13.5 per cent; failure to sig- \ For the fall A nal 6.7 per cent: careless backing 6.0 there is 2 m : too fast for conditions 5.4 | ollowing too closely 5.3 per | ng on wrong side of road 3| ! per cent; confusion 2.4 per cent; cut- | ting in 1.8 per cent; inexperience 1.7 per cent; intoxication 1.1 per cent; | eutting corners 1.9 per eent; miscel- laneous 1.5 per cent. 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