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Show OCTOBER 25, 1952. THE JOURNAL 8 a road without City to Ogden hazardous crossings or curves, a divided road wide enough for three lanes of each direction and sure enough, someone would roll a car over on it and kill himself. Capt. Youngberg proved an seer. Forty-eighours after his statement, a Utah motorist met death in an overturning car on the wide, smooth, divided stretch of U.S. Highway 91 South of "Perfect" Roads Cannot End Traffic Deaths DRIVE DEFENSIVELY 4th of Series by Jack Goodman Capt. L. A. Youngberg, head of the traffic division of the Salt Lake City Police Department, bitterly discussed the causes and cures of ht Lagoon. highways smashups recently. We could build a perfectly enStatistics Cited gineered freeway from Salt Lake The police expert needed crystal ball. For a brief glance at statistics with vital statistics which you, the motorist, are vitally concerned shows Utahs current traffic death toll is one compounded of excessive speed, law violations and the faulty judgment of the motorist. Where do motorists and pedestrians die ? A year ago 72 of your friends and neighbors were wiped out in urban accidents, while 135 lost their races with death on county and state rural highways. no This year the proportion is even REESE M. REESE ff I''-' cDemoaatic Candidate ?or STATE TREASURER ABILITY. EXPERIENCE :isr INTEGRITY , ELECTION NOVEMBER 4th 'V (hid Political Advertiianait) As of July just in listed were 15 traffic fatalities in Lagon, major Utah cities Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake, Murray, Provo and Ogden. Ninety-seve- n men, women and children had died on highways classified as rural. True enuogh, Kane, Piute, Daggett and Morgan counties were but so were without fatalities the communities of Brigham City, Price and Tooele. Cities Better Mark The states nine principal cities showed a drop in fatalities this year as against 1951 with just 15 black crosses in the cities as against 28 on July 1 a year ago. Unfortunatley, county totals rose from 72 in 1951 to 97 this July 1. And the end, of course, is not in sight except for another hundred or so doomed motorists and pedestrians. Whats wrong in the once bucolic let countryside where grand-da- d his buggy amble toward a market town while he dozed in a leather seat? Granddad could break the law Old Dobbin had horse sense. You cant your car has no eyes of its own! Whereas fewer cars use even the busiest state highway than use checkerboarded city streets, motorists simply refuse to use the common sense God gave them, fail to more striking. 1 six-mon- th (Continuation of standard equipment and Mm Illustrated Is on availability of material.) realize that, whereas a law violation may result in smashed fenders in comparitively slow moving urban traffic, the same violation lets say failure to signal for a turn or to make a full stop at a sign is virtually suicide where cars pass each other at a combined speed of 120 mph. Laws Violated Says G. Ernest Bourne, Utah Safety Council executive director: In 87 per cent of traffic accidents recorded, drivers involved contributed to smashups by violating a traffic law. What are major failings of motorists who dont live to discuss them? Mr. Bourne ranks them as: Excessive speed. ; Failure to observe signals or signs. Failure to signal intent cour, tesy. Driver fatigue. Intoxication. Others, errors that can kill just as efficiently, although not responsible for quite so sizeable a toll, include poor physical condition bad eyesight or the slow reactions or inexperienced of an over-ag- e driver; such sudden hazards as sunset glare, bright oncoming lights, the poor highway chuck-holemechanical condition of a car, including faulty brakes, lights or windshield wipers ; weather-cause- d conditions, and such highway faults as badly aligned curves, narrowing pavement, improperly marked passing stripes and hidden access points to main highways. Drive Defensesively However, says Mr. Bourne, defensive driving can safeguard the wary motorist against hazards in the later category. A defensive Driver is a man or woman alert at all times for road emergencies, not a fellow making like a chimpanzee with one hand gripping the outside car roof. Such a chap is hardly prepared to swerve his car d needs safely when arise. As the safety executive sees it: A basic change in attitudes is required. The feeling that accidents will happen or that laws are made for the other fellow is too widespread. Actually accidents dont happen they are caused. Mr. Bourne calls for the same courtesies to the other driver you extend to guests in your parlor, people encountered in an elevator or neighbors at church. s; split-secon- . You get more work for less money with Chevrolet trucks! For a Chevrolet truck -is always right-fact- ory matched to the job, with the right power, the right capacity, the right engine, transmission, springs, axle, and tires. Come in and see how you'll get a better deal and a better buy with Chevrolet trucks ! -- Now 'A Man. WITH CHEVROLET TRUCKS! A bottor buy bctauso They list for less than comparable models of other makes. 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