Dangerous Street Hour, Daily Racing Form, 1936-05-25

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DANGEROUS STREET HOUR Coroner Frank Walsh, after making an analysis of 1,015 automobile fatalities in Cook County, announced Friday that the hour between 6 and 7 p. m. is the most dangerous hour on the streets. During that hour of the day in 1935 there were ninety-four persons killed in automobile accidents. The preceding hour, from 5 to 6 p. m., was the second most dangerous. A total of ninety-six children under eleven years of age were killed during 1935.


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