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Show SELF-DEFENSE IS ESSENTIAL Car Owner Should Impress Witnesses With Vital Points. Accidents are something that the owner of a motor vehicle does not like particularly to contemplate, and generally gen-erally puts off any consideration of the subject until the mishap has actually occurred. This is probably Hie reason why most car owners fail to take the steps that prudence dictates when an accident has actually happened and by the same token this is why car owners so frequently find themselves in court and "in- Dutch" at the, same time. In the Auprust issue of MoTolt thore is an article detailing the steps that the car owner should take in self-dci'cnse, when he is involved in an' kind of an accident. To beRiii with tho author, 'William II. Picrson, suf,'t;esls that "the cor owner must remember that the witnesses wit-nesses of an accident are quite likely to be uncertain of memory as he himself him-self is. For this renson ho should call to the attention of witnesses particular points in connection with the accident which he knows will help his case when it comes to court. For instance, he should point out to them aud demonstrate demon-strate that the emergency brake is set tight. If the mishap occurred at a street -intersection he should impress upon their minds that he had slowed down his car for the crossing and had the vehicle well in hand. He should impress upon thcin that he sounded his warning sigp.nl, po t hat they will remember re-member it when they go on tho stand. If the pavement was wet or otherwise slippery at. the time of the accident, he should show the witness tjir.t his chains were in place on the tires. "A very important point to prove in court is that the car wns in its proper place on the street when the accident occurred. Measurements, corroborated by witnesses will establish this. If the trouble came when tho car was making a turn, get witnesses to prove that it was making a wide turn, as provided pro-vided by the traffic regulations." The author proceeds to cite instances in which car owners have neglected to anther the proper evidence at the time of an accident, to their later undoing, lie points out th:i t much of tiie evidence evi-dence in the-c cnes is of a verv tem-I tem-I porary nature and must be gotten on I the spot or it is gone forever, lie further fur-ther suggests the drawing of a diagram showing all the principal persons and things in any way involved in the acci-i acci-i deni, with various pertinent distances marked on the chart. Altogether this is a most valuable article and one that every car owner should read, as it may save him a considerable sum in real money. |