Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 10, DeMotte, Jasper County, 23 January 1941 — FEWER ACCIDENTS AT NIGHT—REPORT SHOWS [ARTICLE]

FEWER ACCIDENTS AT NIGHT—REPORT SHOWS

Reports covering vehicle accidents on the State highway system for the last six months of 1940 show thai 53.1 percent of all accidents during that period occured during daytime and 0n1y’46.9 percent were at night. James D. Adams, chairman of the State Highway Commission, said today. A study of accidents imported on tJhe 4 state highway system during the six month s covering 10.236 accidentshows that 3,570 or 34.8 percent «ol these were on the four hundred miles of state highway routes in cities having a population of over 3, 500 and the remainder on the approximately ten thousand miles of “rural” highways. In the cities, the percentaage of night accidents was even lower than on highways outside, with 45.4 percent of the accidents on highway routes in cities* a? night and 47.5 percent of those on the “rural” highways at night. Don't forget to see the new Philco Refrigerator lit Swart's Store.