They weren’t kidding. Throughout the 1920s, motor vehicle crashes in the United States killed more than twenty thousand people a year—more than two-thirds of them pedestrians.
A Conflict on the roads. Up until now, roads had been hared between pedestrians, tradesmen and buggies.
With the rise of the automobile, shared era comes to an end.
2/3rds of fatals in accidents were pedestrians.
