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Show 1 4 i Look! Listen! Live A driver with alcohol in his system sys-tem doesn't have much system about the way he does things. In the grade crossing accident illustrated here, three young men had alcohol in their systems and the three men and their systems, including the alcohol, were in a car, one of Jiem as the driver. At 3:20 a.m. the driver steered headon into a freight train at a grade crossing. The impact derailed de-railed an oil car and threw it into the path of a speeding passenger train coming from the opposite direction. The passenger engine was derailed, and jack-knifed the baggage car, turning over a coach and derailing five additional cars. Forty persons were injured, the three young men were killed and traffic on the mainline a vital war goods artery was tied up for several hours. Alcohol and gasoline don't mix " nor does a car mix well with a speeding train. But 34 per cent of the grade crossing accidents are due to cars running into the side of trains, and three-fourths of these occur at night. The National Safety Council is conducting a special campaign to stop these accidents which every day delay 38 trains a total of 22 hours a serious drain on the nation's na-tion's war transportation effort. Driver carelessness is the cause of almost all grade crossing acci dents, according to the Council. To help win the war to save yourself and others needless suffering suffer-ing the Council asks you to be sure the track is clear before you start across. |