Show H t highway safety sense A deluge of ghoulish guessing and thirsty bloodthirsty ref reI reporting re re- re- re l that has been porting has obscured the very real progress I f made in automotive highway safety I 1 From a high of deaths per million vehicle f I miles in 1945 the rate was slashed to ro 53 in 1960 In 1961 it was reduced even more with a record low of 51 posted in the first 11 months This outstanding progress was wast made during the decade and a half since World War II t when the number of cars trucks and buses on Americas America's Americast s t streets and highways highwaY'S soared from a little over 31 million i to more than 74 million With the automotive safety record constantly Imi Im inv t i proving its it's time to stop atop screaming death and 4 tion Its It's time to call a halt to creating the impression R I that the only safe place for the family car cat is home in the g garage Theres There's Theres There's no minimizing the importance of highway safety safety and nd nobody wants to but to-but but sensational reports of widespread carnage instead of making drivers safer and more competent can make them more tense more nervous nervous ner ner- vom and more accident What Whitt makes better drivers is not horror but help not scares but suggestions not terror but teaching Safe driving is a skill which once mastered and remembered provides great pleasure Americas America's automotive safety record can be improved still more without horror and hysteria by the conscientious application of the principles prin prin- of safe driving |