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Show A RULE OF THE ROAD. .One of the rules of the road is that approaching autoists shall dim their headlights or entirely extinguish them and use only sidelights. This is a rule more honored in the broach than in the observance so far as Utah is concerned. con-cerned. The consequence has been a number of disastrous and sometimes fatal fa-tal accidents. In many states the rule has been crystallized crys-tallized into law and penalties have been provided for its nonobservance. In Utah no such law exists and even the existence of the rule seems to be known to comparatively few. At all events ears rush toward each other with headlights glowiug like the searchlights of warships. The drivers are so dazzled daz-zled that they eairuot see the road or anything else at a distance of a few feet. They rely on the rule of turning to the right to save them from a crash, but in the confusion they caunot guide their cars aright. In several instances, as a result af such bewilderment, cars have toppled over embankments and the occupants have been killed or seriously injured. Nor is the danger confined to the country coun-try roads. When turning in the city streets a driver often liuds himself suddenly blinded by a headlight and does not know which way to go. Innumerable In-numerable autoists can tell you of accidents acci-dents or disasters caused by such an experience. It is only necessary to call the attention at-tention of most autoists to this neglect of ai important ruin of the road to have' them observe it. They will realize that the observance will add immeasurably immeas-urably to the security of travel and they will hasten to abide by the rule in the hope that other autoists will follow fol-low their example. At all events, law or no law. the drivers of motor ears should do everything they can to have the rule universally observed. |