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Show SAFETY COUNCIL REPORTS ON SAFE DRIVING Chicago Are teen-age drivers as reckless as older folks say they ale? The National Safety Council says the answer is "yes." The 1948 edition of "Accident Facts," the Council's statistical yearbook includes studies made of accident rates of drivers in various var-ious age groups. These studies show that the fatal accident rate in terms of miles driven by youngsters young-sters under 20 was 89 per cent higher than the average rate for all drivers. , .., The Council believes driver training courses in high schools and colleges are a big part of the answer to the .problem. Better ex amples by parents and older rivers riv-ers would help a lot too, it says. |