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Show MORE ACCIDENTS REPORTED AMONG YOUNG DRIVERS - Provo city's police-civic club traffic safety committee recently posed a question concerning the high accident rate of young drivers, and gave a few answers. The question; "Why, when youth is quicker, stronger, more agile, do young people have so many, more accidents in automobiles automo-biles than older people?" Traffic Sergeant Max M. Snow, general chairman of the committee, commit-tee, answered: "Young people lack experience and mature judgment. They lack ability to fully appreciate hazards and assume responsibility. They think, act and drive too fast for their experience and judgment. Through lack of forethought, experience ex-perience and sound judgment, they get themselves into dangerous danger-ous situations, because their driving driv-ing speed, thoughts and actions are too far out in front of the necessary forethought and judgment. judg-ment. "Young people take too many chances," Sergeant Snow said. "They don't think and plan how to drive safely and expertly." Sergeant Snow appealed to young people to take advantage of the driver's education classes now available in the high schools. Sergeant Snow also listed a few timely tips, good advice for any driver, but which would do much to cut down the young-driver accident ac-cident rate if carefully observed. They included the age-old but still vital admonition that "whiskey "whis-key and gasoline don't mix," and a few more, including : Never continue driving while drowsy. If a driver feels sleepy, he should pull off to the side of the road, get out and walk around his car a few times to wake up. Keep your car within "controllable "control-lable speed." This is a factor that varies with all conditions, and calls for separate judgment in each. Fifty miles an hour might be safe in some places, where 30 in heavy traffic or slick roads would be dangerous. Never overload your car beyond seating capacity. Keep your car in good mechani- ' cal condition, particularly brakes and lights. Keep in mind the fact that some fool might be on the highway who will make it necessary to watch out for him as well as yourself. This is an unfair condition to impose im-pose on the driver who is already careful, but it exists and it must be reckoned with. |