Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-22 | Page 4 | The Stop Signal

THE STOP STOlP SIGNAL THE grim tragedy which occurred the other THE night in the southeast part of Salt Lake Is a reminder that Stop signs at Intersections intersections intersections are something m more more re than wood and metal idle unmeaning symbols These signs are place l crossi crossings gs which in the exp experience e of officers having to o do with traffic kb erf f r regarded g rd d as S dan dan- ro The driver who ignored the warning sign and sped headlong headlong- Into the Intersection rushed heedlessly into a deathtrap The re result re- re suIt sult was that he lie and his wife lost their lives and a number of others were Injured There is a a. a very thin line Huc in traffic be between between between be- be tween life Ute and death The margin of safety depends upon the carefulness of the driver The percentage In his favor becomes apparent apparent apparent ent only when he adopts ordinary cautionary caution caution- ary measures like using the foot brake when approaching intersections and more especially especially especially espe espe- those crossings labeled with warnings for his benefit Some drivers have sped through deathtraps deathtraps deathtraps death death- traps time after time escaping unscathed but the imm immutable law of or averages averages' is that sooner soone-r or later they must come to grief The fact that have cheated death many times emboldens them to take the warning lightly and to become reckless Soon the danger signals mean nothing at all to them If every automobile driver used ordinary care based upon his own self-preservation self the other fellow would be protected auto auto- Stop signals at intersections are not placed there for ornaments