Washington County News | 1926-06-10 | Page 5 | Few Simple Regulations to Cut Motor Accidents

Few Simple Regulations to Cut Motor Accidents We have too much automobile law. The next trend must be toward the elimination of all unnecessary requirements re-quirements and the enactment of a few simple rules and regulations that may be easily understood, easily enforced en-forced and, as nearly as possible, universally uni-versally observed, says an official of an automobile organization. Such an elimination would in many Instances do away with about three-fourths of our present laws. Traffic rules and regulations are yet In their formative period. Much remains to be done before avoidable accidents may be reduced to a minimum. mini-mum. The principal difficulty is the unwillingness of the public to accept and obey such rules and regulations. It is a matter of undisputed record that between 90 and 95 per cent of all accidents result from the neglect of the Individual pedestrian and less than 5 per cent are caused by the direct fault of the motorist or the reckless use of the motor car. Lying between these figures somewhere are from 3 to 5 per cent of the accidents where both parties are responsible.