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Show UJIIVEHAL MICROFILMING vtr COR bill A'h.Tje GALT LAKE CITY, VOL. VII UTAH MARCH 22, 1952 NO. 20 Novs and Foaturos of Interest to Residents of Davis County. X f traffic accidents in 1950. Nearly 20,000 people died in the dark in the night-tim- e Over 750,000 were injured in the hours from dusk to dawn. Last year these casualties went still higher. Night accidents are one of the greatest factors in the increasing highway death toll. Fatigue, poor illumination, headlight glare, faulty vision, and the greater number of dangerous drinking drivers at night are the major causes of this tragic nocturnal record. Another big factor in both night and day-tim- e fatalities is highway hypnosis. On long drives over smooth, unending roads the steady hypnotic monotony of humming wheels lulls drivers into a dangerous mental blank. Alertness gone, reactions at a low ebb, the worst can happen and does. What do you do when you become drowsy while driving? IU Safe drivers, recognizing the danger signal,; pull off the road and relax. Perhaps they stop for a cup of coffee and stretch their legs, or let someone else take the wheel. They know, as every good driver knows, that safety demands alert driving, particularly at night when the killing rate per vehicle is as much as four times greater in proportion to traffic volume than it is in the daytime. When you are driving in a fog of fatigue pull over! Wake up, or die! Drivo As Thouoh Your Life Doponds On It JL IT |