Word: accidentally
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Sir: The "basic protection plan" advocated by Professors Keeton and O'Connell for auto accident victims [March 25] would be as unworkable as letting the fox guard the henhouse. Every time two bumpers touched, two motorists would rush to file a claim; the plan lacks any safety incentive. Incidentally...
> To focus legislative attention on the chief causes of accidents, about which auto experts have little precise data, the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory announced that it will conduct a three-year study of accidents in Buffalo, N.Y. Said Dr. B. J. Campbell, head of the laboratory's accident research division...
It is. Scheduled-airline flying in the U.S. is 6.4 times safer than personal driving; a person would have to travel 263 million miles in a plane, but only 41 million miles in a car, before he ran an odds-on chance of being killed. More people die by falling...
The Price of Pressure For all that, hardly anyone in the aviation industry would deny that, safe as the air is, it can and should be safer. The industry has been aroused by the worst bunching of crashes in history: nine plane disasters, worldwide, since Jan. 1 have killed 597...
Miles & Minutes. The tragedies took the bloom off what otherwise would have been a glorious victory for Ford. One by one, the miles and minutes took their toll of Ford's main competitors: the two Chaparrals were both out of the race by the second hour, and the Ferrari...