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Show FMKTING WITH DKATII. It is an amazing fact that the apalling number of deaths which result re-sult from sheer carelessness make no greater impression upon the average aver-age person. This is especially true with respect to drivers of automobiles. automo-biles. Persons who are ordinarily careful in protecting their health and pro-Iert.y pro-Iert.y often throw discretion to the winds the moment they grasp the wheel of a motor car and flirt with death through failing to obsei-ve the most elementary principles of safety. They will take a chance at a grade crossing, speed while rounding a blind curve, pass other cars under dangerous conditions, and do other foolish things which menace life and limb seemingly oblivions to the fact that one slight mistake of judgment may prove fatal to them or to those who happen to be pnssengers in their cars. The jaywalker is equally reckless, taking the chance of being run down for the sake of saving a few steps or k hioment's time. In fact, many pedestrians are even more careless than the average motorist. Safety education has been the means of reducing accidents to some extent, but the lamentable fact remains re-mains that no amount of warning has any appreciable effect upon the majority of people. The result is that 36,000 or more persons are killed and about a million mil-lion are injured in automobile accidents acci-dents in the United States every year, while at least 90 per cent of these casualties mig-ht be averted by the use of ordinary common sense. . |