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Show LOOK BEFORE YOU CROSS Drivers of automobiles should be doubly cautious in crossing railroad tracks where the highway parallels the railroad. No railroad crossing should be crossed without looking in both directions and it is particularly necessary to safety that this be done when crossing where railroad and highway parallel each other. Carlessness on the part of the driver at such crossings is attended attend-ed by great danger. Bear in mind that gears should not be shifted on or near the JtrckMany, machines stall when shifting gears. If necessary to shift '' gears do .so not less than 75 feet from track, then look in both directions dir-ections before crossing. A railroad crossing is, dangerous only when made so by careless driving. No prudent person would run over a red light in the highway for it is there as a warning, yet motorists frequently not only run over a crossing flagman and break down crossing gates warning them of an approaching train, but with scarcely less frequency run into a train from one to five cars back of the engine, and then ask taxpayers to tax themselves for grade changes to eliminate the danger, when the danger is not in the crossing but in the driver. |