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Show Don't Let Death Take Your Holiday Is your Christmas gift list all made out? Wait a minute min-ute here's something you may have forgotten. How about giving one extra. gift this year? No, we can't tell. you who to give it to. That's up to you. Maybe you will give it to your wife or husband, or one of your children, or a complete stranger. You may even end up giving it to yourself. The gift is life! Each year hundreds of persons are killed by accidents during the Christmas-New Year's holiday celebration. Most of these death and injuries are in traffic mishaps. The National Na-tional Safety Council has found that the traffic death toll on Christmas is two or three times the annual daily average the most dangerous single period of the year. You may be one of the many drivers and pedestrians who will have it in his power to give a gift of life this Christmas. How? Well, if you refuse to take that holiday drink before you get behind the wheel you may be giving life to someone. If you don't try to pass that car on the hill life can be your gift. If you slow down when you see that pedestrian step hesitantly from the curb you may give the best present of all. It is an ironic fact that the most joyous season of the year is the one most likely to bring traffic tragedy. The reasons are simple, but too often overlooked. Family gatherings and other festivities of the year-end holiday season bring about the peak travel of the winter, and when more cars are on the move, there is more chance of an accident. Early darkness plus bad weather add up to poor visibility. visi-bility. Fogged windshields also make it difficult to see and avoid accident situations. The good fellowship of the season stimulates more drinking, and too often the celebrants clink glasses with death. Rain, snow and ice, when they are present during the holiday, mean slippery streets and highways. And thousands of drivers still fail to adjust their speed to such adverse conditions. So get out that Christmas list again and write down one more gift the life you may give if you drive prudently pru-dently and safely. |
