The Devil Is Driving (1937)

Paul Driscoll (Richard Dix) has been hired by wealthy Charles Stevens (Henry Kolker) to defend his weasel son Tony (Eliasha Cook Jr.) of a drunk-driving accident that killed a woman and crippled her child. The skillful Driscoll gets a not-guilty verdict from the jury based on the perjury testimony of a defense witness, but Driscoll was unaware of it. He then becomes a prosecuting attorney with no holds barred. Especially after his newspaper reporter girlfriend, Eve Hammond (Joan Perry), feeds him stats from the National Safety Council showing from 1928-1937 inclusive 297,230 were killed by automobile accidents, and in California alone, over the same period, 23,105 persons met death as the result of automobile accidents. He also learns that the number of people injured in automobile accidents in the United States annually exceed one million. In other words, one out of every one-hundred persons in the country is doomed to be injured by an automobile. That's one too many according to Driscoll.