This Day in History: 1932-12-19
The effect of the depression was evident in the automobile accident casualties for November, announced by the MV Commissioner Harold G. Hoffmann. The month saw more pedestrian casualties, than any of the month in the states history. 82 of the 116 killed in the State were walking. Overall casualties for the first eleven months of the year, 1042 were down nearly 10 percent over 1931. Apparently fewer people could afford to drive, since only 18 people were killed in collisions of one car with another during November. (Bristow)