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Show Wihilo automobile drivers, as a class, are the H most careful users of streets, there are a few H reckless owners and chauffeurs who discredit the H rest. In the cast, the manufacturers will lend H moral support to severe prosecution of such offen H ders and against speeding, cut-outs and useless H horn blowing, which frighten people. H Contrary to general opinion, speed and reck- H lessness are not) principal causes of accidents. Of H 3,389 persons struck by vehicles of all kinds in H New York City during June, July and August, 737, I H or more than 20 per cent, were struck by horso- H drawn trucks and wagons, whose ordinary speed H is only four or five miles an hour, and which H never exceed ten or twelve miles. And of 1,084 H persons struck 'by vehicles in August, only 4 were H struck by automobiles as a result of speeding, and H but one as a result of recklessness of the driver. H Attempt will ibe made, however, to have the 9U H leading automobile manufacturing companies em- H braced in the N. A. 0. C. membership conduct a H campaign of education among purchasers of their H cars and trucks. Much more good will result H from friendly co-operation between city and state H authorities and the automobile interests than by , H misrepresentation of the facts and attempts to H place most of the iblame for street accidents upon ' H the motorist, thereby antagonizing all users of tH motor vehicles. il |