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Show MOTOR DRIVERS IRE NEGLIGENT Close Check Shows Growing Disregard for Safety B A Tn MO R R, June 14 Are drivers' of motor vehicles heeointng more rg-llgent. rg-llgent. less regardful of their own safety safe-ty ? It would seem as from actual observations ob-servations made by the rfslttntore eV hlo railroad Kop more than two years this railroad nee been plac'ng men at crossings where there sre usunlly a larse number of automobiles paaalng. Theee observers mnke note of the nttmher of machines crossing end iik down the license nun here of thoee whose drivers fall to Uku nnv itiecautlon to aaaure thetnaelvea that It la safe to psss over the tracks. Th's eefety nrereutlnn ronsista of the urlv-tra urlv-tra slowlnr down or stopping, and ihen looking and listening When a driver dashes over without taking any of these nm-awtlnns. bis lleenee number num-ber Is noted and a card telling him cf his negligence Is sent him. with request re-quest to guerd his life and property the rest time he goes over a rallr-iad trarlt. In the year lsift the RelMmore Oht.t oh-ervers took note ft SVW.iJO ve-blcUs ve-blcUs In the states through which It ft peri les. In t list year, acenrdlnrf to the records of these observers, there were if SUM drivers who railed to take any precautions at highway crossings This was per rent of th total o line li-ne rv a t tons made In April of this year there, were ic,-477 ic,-477 automobiles checked by the rsll- osd's observers. There were j7.' cf the drivers of these reported as fnillng lo stop, oik or listen before passing over the irHfJii. This we a safety "failure" of Ifi per cent. Kor t he first four montha of this yetr there were msrhlne ol- served snd the 'failures" renched 17 per t-ent The Incresse In the number of drivers driv-ers failing to take anfety precaut lor sterns flesrlv to IndWate, In the opinion opin-ion of the road's eafetv depHriniei t, thnt the automobile driver Is becoming more negligent. |