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Show ACCIDENTS CAUSES, RESULTS, REMEDIES. The National Safety council has issued is-sued a report, entitled "A Balanced Plan for Reduction of Traffic Accidents." Acci-dents." It brings together in brief form the fundamental factors of a problem which affects us all. The causes of traffic accidents are three-fold: Inadequate highways; cars in poor mechanical condition; untrained, untrain-ed, inexperienced, reckless or heedless drivers. The results, in 1931, were 33,-000 33,-000 deaths and an economic waste totaling $1,250,000,000. The remedies are streets and highways built to safety standards, education of drivers, pedestrians, children, police and the general public, and stringent enforce-. enforce-. ment of standardized, reasonable laws. To achieve accident reduction, the states, cities and federal government must work together. Schools, the automobile au-tomobile industry, transport companies compan-ies and civic organizations must cooperate. co-operate. Most important of all, every one of us must do his part. Automobile accidents can be reduced. re-duced. The driver who is not heedful of the rights of others, must be punished, pun-ished, and, if necessary, eliminated . from the highways. The unfit car must be junked. Hazards that are part of existing highways must be done away with and new highways built to safety specifications. The time has ' come for action. |