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FROM 1963 EDITION OF ACCIDENT FACTS PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

97,000 Americans died in 1962 from accidents. This is five per cent more than died in 1961. (The figure excludes homicide, suicide and war operations.)

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This is a partial breakdown of the 97,000 deaths:

40,900 in motor vehicle accidents. Includes deaths involving mechanically or electrically operated highway-transport vehicles (except rails) on and off highway or street.

19,800 in falls. Excludes falls from vehicles of all types, and cataclysms.

7,500 in fires. Excludes deaths from hot objects or liquids.

6,400 by drowning. Excludes drownings in floods and cataclysms.

2,000 by firearms. Excludes deaths from war operations.

1,700 by poisoning. Includes deaths from medicines, common poisons, shellfish, mushrooms, but not caused by botulism.

1,400 from poison gases. Mostly carbon monoxide.

SOME SELECTED FIGURES:

7,900 pedestrians were killed. Includes all deaths of persons struck by motor vehicles, on or off street or highway, regardless of circumstances.

1,100 killed in water transport accidents. Includes deaths in water, from falls, burns, drowning.

200 in other transport accidents. Includes accidents involving street cars, bicycles, animal-drawn vehicles but excludes trolleys, subways, elevateds, tricycles, scooters.

1,999 in railway accidents (11 months of 1962 only). Includes: 28 passengers on trains, 186 employees on duty, 1,177 non-trespassers and 608 trespassers.