sane er Of attributable to: val cause Canada Jin- 1976, _accidents .. ‘accounted. ‘for: at 251 | ‘or - 6. 1%, down. from 7.3%. the _ previous. year: The number of accident fatalities ' decreased by 1 ,326' or 10.5% and the rate. -per’-100,000 population declined from a. _ 55.410 48. 9 Male, accident’ “fatalities “ numbered: 8,009: which | represented..71.2%: of * the” total and a: decrease of 861: deaths. over 1975..:Female accident _ fatalities - -Bumber 3,242 — 28.8% of: the. total — anda decrease” of” 465 cident fatality” Fates .per 100,000 ulation: were 69.9 for males and: 28 0 for females — decreasing from. 78.4 and 32. 6 respectively in. 1975. os ‘The |. ten — ‘Tending’ - ‘Collision with. 5199 deaths © pedestrian, 863 (16.9%). The 15-24 age group accounted for 1,934 deaths or 37.8%. and (23.4%): children under 15 years for | 546 or 10.7%. There’ were . 3,723 males: and ‘1 ,387 females killed in motor vehicle traffic accidents. The overall motor’ vehicle 100, 000. population decreased from 25.5 in. 1978. to 22.2. For = males . decreased from. 37.3 to 32. 5 and for females it decreased ; from 14. 1 to 12.0. deaths over .1975.° “The ac-. “Of ‘the 863 pedestrian fatalities in motor vehicle accidents 241 (27.9%) were . . classifications “of _ accident = - fatalities represented" 04.6% of the total and were the | - vehicle = | (traffic) 45 AN; falls 16:2%;. © following; “..motor drownings 8.6%; ‘fite 6.8%: . industrial. type 6.0%; AY traffic - fatality .rate per ~ : childrea tinder - 45 and™ 280° “ | (32.4%) persons over 55. Of the 1.821 victims ‘of fatal falls, 1,265 or about 7 out of every 10 were 65 years of age. or over., Among> females stith deaths are predominantly in persons - over 65, whereas, among: -males falls are a common Cause of death atall ages. "Next. to wei ‘vehicles, : the home accounts for most of the fatal accidents. Of the 5,936 non-transport accident '- fatalities, 2,103 or 38.0% The niimber of drownings decreased. from 1,133 (1975) . to 971 (1976), a decrease of 162 or. 14.8%. Of. these 971 drownings; 237 (24.4%) were children under 15 and 242 (24.9%) youths in the 15- 24 age-group. Males out- numbered females about 6 to 1. . Drownings watercraft, almost |. ex- clusively a.male hazard,’ ‘, accounted for 240 deaths or 24.7% of the total; of these ._ the majority involved small boats or watercraft with a passenger . capacity of less than ten, occurred in the home and - falls, fires, poisoning and suffocation accounted for 1,851 or 88.0% of these. ‘or the 479 suffocations, 332 were due ‘to regurgitation of food; the balance was due to cave-ins and: smothering, or.. ob- struction of the respiratory passages by ‘objects other than food. 95 were: infants (under 1 year of age). Among the 526 poisoning fatalities 187 (35.5%) .were due. to drugs = and medicaments, 212 (40.3%) poisoning 4.7%; .- focations 4.6%; aircraft 1.3%; firearms 0.8%; and motor vehicles (non-traffic) 0.5%. ee Excluding the two Nor suf- ~ thern Territories,. provincial _ 3 accident fatality rates ranged from. 40.9% to 64.9%. with increases in New. Brunswick « and Saskatchewan:: Rates - are influenced. -by. the: dif- fering age - aod sex. com>: position. Populations. Of thé 5,110 motor vehicle traffic fatalities 76.6% were due to injuries sustained in three types of accidents; Collision with another vehicle, 1,854 deaths (36.3%); loss of control, 79 PONTIAC mT tt, a ~>provincial "TEACH HIM THE SAFE WAY and mayhe the number of car accidents will decrease even farther. 78 MUSTANG Il 4 oy. 4 speed, mags. 78 FIREBIRD ~ 56499 70 RIVIERA re Se. No. 811488 [: Pha raecxs| A699 ‘St. No. FVIOZA a vr dion mc SUNBIRD. aay TT te "$3988 4. Ma. 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