Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-12 | Page 13 | Traffic Drive Aimed to Cut Road Hazards

TRAFFIC DRIVE AIMED TO CUT CUTRO RO O Police Test Lights Brakes to Reduce Winter Dangers of Motoring With the coming of or the winters winter's rain and snow police are concentrating ing on reducing the hazards pres presented by faulty headlights in ln their efforts to m minimize traffic accidents accident in Salt Lake Co Stationed near the outlet of the Ogden highway at Fourth North and Second West str streets etS Motorcycle Patrolmen Patrolmen Patrolmen Pa Pa- T. T B. B Burbidge and W. W V V. V R. R Hawkes Wednesday night issued tags to 60 CO motorists operating c cars rs with glaring headlights and in irs some lome in instances instances in- in stances machines with only one headlight headlight head head- light burning The one headlight hazard the tha patrolmen said is common and in nearly every ery case inexcusable An approaching motorist whose visibility is impaired by rain snow or or mist cannot cannot can can- not determine on which side of th the car the single light is burning and andas as a result often otten runs of off the road or crashes into the oncoming machine INSPECTION HELD AID AH Motorists whose headlights are faulty often are arc unaware of the fact but a daily dally inspection during the winter months will keep them posted and md perhaps avert a fatal accident The work of testing headlights and brakes will continue indefinitely Palice PolIce Police Po Po- lice Chief Joseph E. E Burbidge prom prom- One One eyed automobiles in Cache county came under the pale of the tho Continued on t Ap re T two T-senty-two 1 TR DRIVE R lYE AIMED TO CUT Continued from from fron P Pare Page Thirteen law aw Thursday when the state highway high high- way vay traffic squad moved into that county for a week end of ot activity The traffic police e in their c continuous ous us search for r cars with bad brakes and poor lights will soon end their activities for the time being in the northern part of the state stat and will turn urn attention to the southern por por- lon tion W Weather cather conditions may hamper the brake testing to some extent but the thew w war r against one eyed or r glaring lIghts will ill ill- continue with the same vigor which has marked the work thus farI far I WORK ORK TO CONTINUE Highway officials announce that there here will be no cessation of this work They announce also that there will vill be no undercover work The patrols are not out on the road with the he idea of making arrests but merely with the idea of of requiring drivers whose cars are arc faulty to get them re- re paired Th The patrols work on a schedule and ando no o effort is made to hoodwink the public into thinking the testing squad squads Is s in one area when It actually is Inthe Inthe in inic the ic other About one car out of every three iree is stopped and given the t test st for brakes rakes and lights About half the thears cars ars stopped show faulty equipment The law then waits 48 hours before it strikes Members of the highway commis- commis stan lon state that this policy polley is getting results and that the condition willbe willbe will wille be e remedied by pounding along on the thI ae same ame line Motorists are are losing their heir distaste for traffic cops and andare andare andare are joining in the spirit of the work realising that the course the state Is 15 following is for their own good