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Show RAILROAD CROSSINGS WILL BE MADE SAFE Repeated investigations of accidents at places where highways cross railwavs at grade show that a larcre part of thet-e accidents is due to the failure of drivers to slow down as they approach the : crossing". For this reason some rmblir 'officials believe that the roads should be so constructed at the most dangerous crossings that drivers must reduce speed to a low rate. The California railroad commission has recently sent to a number num-ber of cities and counties six plans for accomplishing this, with a request that they be tried or at least criticised. In each case there is a conspicuous signal or sitrn in the middle of the road near or at the crossing, and the driver must swerve to one side to reach the track. In some of the plans the driver must make an abrupt righthand tnrn and another an-other lefthand turn before the track is reached, so that slowing down is compulsory com-pulsory and not voluntary. |