Show Light On A ADark Dark Darl Subject Drivers who tell you they can drive best at night are either rare exceptions to to the general rule or they are simply talking through their hats bat mostly hats mostly the latter Accident statistics do not bear them out they indicate that it la s not only harder but more dangerous to drive at night Three out of every five motor vehicle deaths happen after dark and this In spite of fewer cars care on the roads roaM and a yearly average of fewer darkness than daylight hours bours 1 Safety In night driving Is entirely a question of visibility and there are therefore only two ways by which night accidents can be reduced One Is to provide increased visibility wherever possible the other is to acquire the tho i habit of ot Increased caution wherever visibility Is below daylight t standards j I If It that seems stressing over-stressing the obvious obvious obvious ous it Is 18 only because drivers and pedestrians pedestrians pedestrians ped ped- havo have allowed themselves to become become become be- be beI I come overconfident over Twenty thousand I time night-time traffic deaths In a year cannot can 1 not be laughed away I The responsibility for adequate street lighting rests squarely with the community community com com- I concerned The cost is 18 small small I compared with the saving In n life and i property I Away from city limits on roads which are not artificially lighted responsibility rests with Individual travelers Automobile Automobile Automobile Auto Auto- mobile headlights giving the same visibility as normal daylight have not been Invented and motorists ts must make allowances al allowances allowances al- al accordingly If a driver cannot I stop within his headlight range he may I have the doubtful satisfaction of seeing what he Is la going to hit only a split fraction tractIon of a second before he be hits it It may well be the last thing he will willever willever willever ever see |