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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1966-08-18, Page 7.BRUSSELS TRANSPORT SAFE Df.PENDABLE 'CHUCKING SERVICE Ship Pigs On Monday A.M. if Monday Holiday Ship Tuesday THE BRUSSELS POST Eatablishd 1872 Serving the Farming CommtunIty ROY W. KENNEDY. Publlehar Published BRUSSELS. ONTARIO, every Thursday Authorized as Second . Class Mail, Post Office department, Ottawa Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Phone Cattle Trucking Service to or from. Brussels anywhere within Ontario George Jutzi Brussels 1242 -0011111a. 11111b R. el, BAUER YOUR MASSEY - FERGUSON DEALER A Cpmplete Line Of New and Used Farm Equipment PHONE 5 BRUSSELS, ONT. a A. RANN FUNERAL AND AMBULANCE seRvicit Licensed Funeral Oirector and EMINI11111111, GORDON JACKSON LICENSED AUCTIONEER PHONE: 291-4450 LISTOWEL PHONE 36 or BRUSSELS, ONT. OPTOMOTRIST •SEAFORT-1-1 MEDICAL CENTRE Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturday a.m. Thursday evenings by appointment only. 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Canada's accident fatality rate Per 100,000 population rose from 54.9 to 56.1 per cent. Males led, females by a ratio of about 5 to 2. Accounting for 93.5 per cent, of all accident deaths were (in this order): motor vehicles, tails drowning, fire and explosion, suffocation, poisoning, mach- inery, blows from objects, air- craft and firearms, Collision of two or more vehi- cles caused 39.4 per cent of the total traffic deaths, pedestrians Were involved in 27.1 per cent; 19.7 per cent ran off the road. Of pedestrian' deaths. 41.7 per cent were children under 15, 30.2 per cent adults over 55. The 15-to- 24 age group provided 26.7 per cent of all tratfic victims, with the 25-34 age group providing 14.5 per cent and the 35-44 catetgory 10.9 per cent. N.S.L. believes it is significant that, in the 15 - 24 age group, 40.5 per cent of the road fatal- ities involved coilision between two vehicles. The home rated next to motor vehicle as the most fatal locat- ion. Of 1965's .5,612 non-transport fatalities, 39 per cent occurred in the home where falls, fire and explosion, suffocation and poison- ing accounted for 8.8.2 per cent of the deaths. Drownings totalled 1,119, with 35.1 per cent children under 1.5 and 22.8 per cent youths (15-24). Males outnumbered females ab- out six to one. Watercraft, almost exclusively a male hazard, were involved in 28.1 per cent. Of all suffocation deaths, 61.38 per cent involved Infants, us- ually through regurgitation or smothering. Drugs and solvents figured in 62.7 per cent of the deaths by poisioning; gases and vapors in 37. 3 per cent. Of the latter, motor vehicle exhaust accounted for 67.7 per cent. Children under ten were in- volved in 32.15 per cent of the 656 fire fatalities. "Accident Facts 1965" is avail- able from the League's national office in Ottawa (Thirty The "Driveway) for 35 cents each. 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