Auto deaths in Connecticut in 1927 top year findings
Hartford study by University of Hartford foundation civil engineering Prof Richard Shelton Kirby shows 255,018 deaths tied to motor vehicles, with $2,762,341 in property damage. September and November are worst months. eight mile stretch of East Post Road from New Haven to order is the deadliest highway. Drivers blamed for 75.8 percent of 1927 accidents, with inattentiveness and miscalculation leading factors. Collisions at intersections, daytime rain and cool roads common. pedestrians and unknown operators also contribute. Connecticut死亡 rate rising then falling since 1917, auto deaths about one third of all central deaths. gasoline tax revenue noted.
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