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Show clusively that teen age drivers fre 11 times more likely to cause a fatal accident than those from 45AsJ long as there are teen agers and automobiles, they are going to get together. The answer is not Don't let Junior drive but-train but-train him properly so that he will be a good driver. In one state 1800 high school students were trained by a state police officer and during the 2 12 year period, only 1 student had a minor non-chargeable non-chargeable accident. If these students stu-dents know their limitations and sIfeeSStrai above the average 1 per cent of the 25 000 h have a drivers' in Utah 17 per cenuP schools offcKoth "J courses , in behind ft" ver training. Sixteen : schools offer cla 1 tion only and still?' X- have a behind the I!? l program. e WH f if der the handicap of glaring headlights. head-lights. G. Glare Recovery. The temporary temp-orary blindness occasioned I W momentary exposure to bngh headlights is experienced by every ev-ery driver in some degree and a ysome time. This test reveals the duration of the blindness. The result of many tests indicate indi-cate that only 4 per cent of the drivers are in reality f cident prone, that is because of thur physical limitations subject to accidents. But this 4 per cent art-responsible art-responsible for 40 per cent of all accidents. Another group responsible respon-sible for a high percentage of tne accidents is the teen age drivers, and these figures are the result of 100,000 drivers who were tested test-ed over a 6 year period. During this test 16 year old drivers were responsible for 201 fatalities, 17 year old drivers 186 and in the 18 year bracket 148, 19 year olds were charged with 215. During this same period, the drivers between be-tween 45 and 50 years of age killed 66 persons. This is particularly par-ticularly serious and alarming when we realize that the teen age driver ordinarily uses the car only at those times when it is not being used by his seniors, and the study continues to reveal con- "j SHOULD YOU BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE? Why of course! Your answer is obvious and to you the question is ridiculous. Sure, you should be allowed to drive, you are a tax payer, you pay property tax, income in-come tax, sales tax, excise tax. The excise tax alone on your motor mo-tor vehicle in 1947 was $1,577,-033,060.00 $1,577,-033,060.00 for tax on oil, tires, tubes and parts. Then you bought your license plates and you paid state and federal gasoline tax. Finally you paid for a drivers license and were required to take a drivers examination. So you and 40 million othur drivers of the United States have the right to drive', and yet last year 34,000 lives were lost in highway accidents. acci-dents. Just think of it, this equals the total population, men, women and children of Provo, Price, Cedar Ce-dar City and Biigham City, and this doesn't count a million other persons who were maimed and mangled and who sometime during dur-ing 1948 may be rightfully added to the 1947 toll. Why? Sure, bad roads and faulty equipment were responsible for some, but only approximately 10 per cent. The balance can be charged honestly and squarely to just plain bad, careless or faulty driving. Investigation of many accidents brings to the surface the same answer "I didn't realize until just a second before the accident". Driver Testing Laboratory This driver testing laboratory offering a complete battery of tests, developed and designed to let each individual know his own physical limitations, includes: A. Keystone Visual Safety Tests. Designed to more acuiate-ly acuiate-ly determine visual ability than is possible with the standard letter let-ter charts. 1. Color Discrimination. To determine de-termine the ability between red, green, blue and yellow. 2. Visual Acuity. Three separate separ-ate tests used in the determination determina-tion of the ability to distinguish small details at a distance measuring mea-suring each eye individually and both eyes together. 3. Depth Perception. A test of the ability to judge relative positions po-sitions of distant objects. 4. Vertical and Lateral Imbalance. Imbal-ance. A check on proper alignment align-ment of eyes with respect to each other. 5. Near .Point Fusion. A test of the ability to focus eyes quickly and correctly on near objects. B. Visual Speed and Accuracy. This is a unique test designed specifically for drivers to determine deter-mine the ability to distinguish small details quickly and accurately. accur-ately. C. Reaction Time. The reacto-meter reacto-meter used for this test measures within a hundredth of a second the driver's reaction time for hands and feet. This indicates the lag from the time the brain gives the command to act until the muscles of the hand and feet can actually execute the command. D. Side Vision. This test measures mea-sures one of the more important driver abilities that of being , able to see cars and pedestrians I to the side when the eves are ac- tually focused on the road straight ahead. E. Night Vision. This test determines de-termines the very important ability abil-ity of seeing under low illumination, illumina-tion, as is required of drivers during twilight hours and during hours of darkness when they must look as far as possible beyond be-yond the actual focus of the head lamps. The perception of form and shape, rather than the ability to identify small detail is the main factor in this test. F. Glare Resistance. A test to determine the ability to see un- |