BUT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT! - William F Dankenbring - December 1976

William F Dankenbring

Months go by and nothing out of the ordinary seems to happen. Life is a breeze, happy, fun-filled, frolicsome, and tranquil. Then, bang, it happens. In a split second your whole life is altered completely. You've had an accident. If you're an American, you are only one of the fifty million other accident statistics that occurred in the nation this year. Very likely somebody in your family or someone you know was hurt in an accident sometime during the past year, perhaps even killed. Each year accidents are the fourth leading cause of death, following heart diseases, cancer, and stroke. Between the ages of 1 and 24, accidents far and away are the leading cause of deaths, Between the ages of 15 and 24, accidents account for over half of all deaths. The aggregate cost of all accidents in 1974 was a whopping $43 billion. That $43 billion is only the monetary cost we must pay each year because of our own or someone else's foolishness, "mistakes," or errors in judgment. The amount of pain and suffering is incalculable - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library