164                     WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK


      It is true that drinking drivers are a menace on our streets and
   highways and that they are responsible for far too many traffic fa-
   talities. Yet that menace of intoxicated drivers is far more control-
   lable under the new driver's license law than is the heretofore un-
   mentioned menace of drunken pedestrians. Intoxication of pedestri-
   ans is the single cause of many traffic fatalities. In 1940, a total of

                                     TABLE I

    PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN WISCONSIN
(Taken from a State Motor Vehicle Department analysis of Wisconsin
             pedestrian accidents covering a three-year period)


    ACTIONS OF PEDESTRIANS
(*Less than one-half of one per cent)               I

        TOTAL PEDESTRIANS ................. 4107        100%
 1. Crossing  at  intersection  .....................  1392  34
   (a) Details  not  stated ....................... 5    *
   (b) Coming around  vehicle .................... 9    *
   (c) W ith  signal  ...........................  101   2
   (d) Against  signal  .........................  246   6
   (e) No signal  .............................  881 21
   (f) Diagonally  ............................  1150    4
 2. Crossing  not  at  intersection ...................  1524  37
   (a) Coming from  left ........................  94   2
   (b) Coming from right ......................  1430    35
       (1) From behind parked cars ........   469    11
       (2) Not from behind parked cars ....   961    23
 3. Coming from behind parked cars to enter vehicle..  0   0
 4. Waiting for or getting on or off street car ........21  1
   (a) At safety zone ....................... ..12        *
   (b) Not at safety  zone ...................... 9    *
 5. Getting  on  or off  other vehicle .................  34  1
 6. W alking  in  roadway ..........................  403  i10
   (a) With traffic  ....................... ....  299  7
       (1) In center of lane ..................    52     1
       (2) On right side, sidewalks available...   27     1
       (3) On right side, sidewalks not available  220    5
   (b) Against traffic  ......................... 38    1
       (1) In center  of  lane ................... . 3  *
       (2) On right side, sidewalks available..     3     *
       (3) On right side, sidewalks not available  32     1
    (c) On opposite  side  of  road ..................  15  *
    (d) Conditions  not  stated ....................  51  1
 7. Walking  in  alley  or  driveway ..................  35  1
 8. Standing  or walking  on  sidewalk ................  59  1
 9. W orking  in  roadway  .........................  25  1
 10. Standing  or working  at  parked  vehicle ...........  89  2
 11. Playing in roadway or ran out while playing . ..  305  7
 12.  Sliding  in  or into  roadway  with  sled ............  . 5   1
 13.  Roller  skating  in  or  into  roadway ..............  14  *
 14.  Hitching  on  or  running  after  vehicle ............  40  1
 15.  Lying  in  roadway  ...........................  23   1
 16.  Not  in  roadway  or on  sidewalk .................  14  *
17. Not stated  ................................  70     2


737   100%   3370
145    2D     1247
  1    3            4


  61                    5
  6     1      95
  15    2     231
102    14     779
20      C     130
253  134      1271
13      2      21
240    32    1190
61      8     408
179    24     782
  0     0           0
  2            19

  4     1      30
164    22     239
109    15     191
34      5      18
  2            25
  72   10     148
  13    2      25
        1           2
  1     8      12
    11  1      21
    4   1      :ii
 39     5          1
         34*12
     6  1      53
  5     1      20
  20    3      69
  32    4     273
  is    2      43
  2     *      12
  12    2      28
  14    2           9
  5     1           9
  57    8   1  13


19 or 7.5 percent of the 255 pedestrians killed in Wisconsin had been
drinking. As high as these reported figures are, there is every reason
to believe that they still understate the true number.
   Table I shows the action of pedestrians involved in motor vehicle
traffic accidents in Wisconsin over a three-year period. Note the
percentage of pedestrians killed and injured while crossing streets
or highways but not at intersections.


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