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By
Senator Harry S. Truman lindep.
april 18.1937
SPEECH BROADCAST THURSDAY, JANUARY TWENTY FIRST, 1937 FROM
THE UNITED STATES SENATE. TO BE RELEASED AT 5:15 P.M.
We are in the midst of the most useless, most reckless and un-
necessary death rate from automobiles in our history. I want it
stopped. One way to stop it is to take the crazy driver from
behind the wheel of the car.
and 4.000000 motory trucks
There are more than 26,000,000 automobiles, in use in the United
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States. In 1935 one million one hundred thousand drivers were
involved in accidents. Thirty six thousand people were killed
and 830,000 seriously injured, and more than a million minor ac-
cidents were not reported. The property damage ran into ten
figures. Every automobile driver should read an article pub-
lished in the Readers' Digest last year called, AND SUDDEN DEATH.
It vividly describes what takes place when cars collide and when
a car hits a pedestrian. There are more innocent children kill-
ed in America every year than have been injured by the bombing
of Madrid, yet the bombing of the Spanish Capital seems atrocious
to us, and it is.
Twenty two States in the great Union are trying bravely to stop
the useless and unnecessary slaughter by automobile drivers. These
States require drivers' licenses with examination and severe
punishment if a person attempts to drive who is not qualified. The
other States allow any one who can get into a car to drive it.
In Detroit when a careful survey of fatal automobile accidents
was made it was found that 14% of these car fatalities were caused
by insane drivers - not drunken drivers, but insane ones. Four-
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