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Show Safety Tip TAKE A LOOK BEHIND When you pull away from the curb, it is not enough simply to shove your hand out and give your engine the gun. Don't rely solely on your rear-vision mirror. There is often a blind area which the mirror does not pick up. Twist your neck it's good for you, and a safe habit to get into. Look behind you and wait for a good opportunity to enter en-ter the moving traffic. If you don't, you'll lose a fender, or probably an arm and most certainly you'll lose an argument, argu-ment, because if you pull away from the curb without looking, look-ing, the consequent accident will be your fault. traffic problem. It is bad and people know it. However, we results of the Governor's can point with pride to the Highway Safety Program. Numerous requests for information infor-mation regarding accident causes conditions and means of reducing reduc-ing accidents is evidence of an increasing desire on the part of organizations and individuals to assist with this problem. There are three principal factors fac-tors in establishing street and highway safety education, engineering en-gineering and enforcement. Two of these factors engineering and enforcement have been accepted ac-cepted as a matter of course fori years. The most important fac-j tor, as it concerns the public, isj education. It is through education edu-cation that the youth of today the drivers of tomorrow are taught proper attitudes. Education Educa-tion is the means by which people, both old and young, become be-come informed and it thru education edu-cation that public opinion is molded. The newspapers and radio stations sta-tions thruout Utah are conducting conduct-ing a traffic safety campaign as their contribution to the education educa-tion program. There is no other media of expression capable of reaching as many people and we owe a debt of gratitude to newspaper news-paper editors and radio station managers for their unselfish contributions. con-tributions. The Utah Safety Council and the Governor's Traffic Safety Coordinating Committee are offering of-fering their assistance to communities com-munities and counties thruout the state in organizing locally to carry on a traffic Occident prevention pre-vention program. These agencies agen-cies are working on the theory that temporary safety drives have not accomplished the desired de-sired results and a permanent program is necessary. State assistance as-sistance includes a local- survey and analysis of traffic conditions. The results can be used as a basis to attain the greatest results re-sults in reducing accidents. When efforts thruout the state are coordinated, our toll of accidents ac-cidents will be greatly reduced. Our appeal, therefore, is for an organized front in this campaign. |