Show Stay On the Safe Side tIlt It It pays to be on the safe sate side I ISo So goes a n familiar old slogan On streets and highways where paint or other markings 11 s are Ate liberally displayed to nate nata the safe sate side for automobiles this truth would seem difficult to Ignore Yet more than deaths and over Injuries ar are arc caused each year by drivers who take chances on the wrong side of The road There Is a growing tendency among drivers to disregard th the theme life me lines of the highways that Is hard to understand because every motorist 11 with sense enough to drive should know and obey the safety rule that solid lines must never be crossed Last Lat year 1600 more drivers lost their lives or caused th the death of others by violating wrong wrong the the road rules rules pass passIng Ing at the crest of n a hill on curves on the open highway at high speeds and on the streets of cities towns and villages vIllages than than the 3 victims of this Illegal habit that were counted In 1918 lIS In th the past three years Injuries from crossing the highway life lines lines' increased about from from In 1949 1910 to last year Nearly nil all head on collisions the worst crashes seen on the highways result from driving on the wrong side of the road About lives were lost in 1951 In multiple multiple death death traffic acel acci accidents dents causing five or more deaths each virtually all of whIch were head In In collisions Those These avoidable tra tragedies edles comprIsed about one one fourth fourth of the nations nation's catastrophes of all kinds that tha year After Arter speeding and drinking and traveling on the wrong side f f the road probably claims the greatest number o of traffic accident victims each year It accounts for about one o of every six facilities and more than one ne of every seven Injuries I It ItIs Is high time tor or the police and courts to remind motorists of the old fashioned slogan with which we began |