More motorcycle riders are hurt than automobile drivers. About 80 percent of all motorcycle accidents result in serious injuries. Only 32 percent of automobile accidents end in major injuries. Death results in about 1 percent of automobile accidents (compare) to 5 percent for motorcycle accidents.
Martin, aged 3, and his mother were visiting friend's last Sunday afternoon. A window was left open and Martin went to look outside. He fell eighty feet from the fourth floor apartment. , his fall was broken by a stand used for drying clothes and he suffered nothing more than a few cuts. After one night in the hospital, the young boy was back home yesterday playing happily with his toys. The doctors were truly surprised that he could have fallen so far without any major injury.