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Show SOMEBODY BLUNDERED. Study of the statistics reveals that a majority of the 756,500 automobile accidents in the United States in 1933 occurred on straight, dry roads in clear weather, and involved cars in good condition driven by persons with a year or more of experience. Over 75 per cent of these drivers were persons per-sons of mature age from 25 to 64. 'I he majority of the 30,000 deaths and 850,000 injuries must be attributed to blunders. A recent analysis by the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety underwriters un-derwriters shows what the blunders were. There are eight in all. - 1. Drove too fast for conditions this accounted for - approximately three-fourths of all mishaps in 1933 assigned to driving blunders, j 2. Failed to slow down at intersections. inter-sections. 3. Failed to keep to the right, i 4. Tried to pass another car going go-ing in the same direction when view was obstructed. 5. Failed to slow down on approaching ap-proaching pedestrians. G Passed on the right of a pre-I pre-I ceding vehicle. 7. Ignored important traffic con trol devices. 8. Parked at dangerous spots. If drivers will obey the eight common com-mon sense rules suggested by these 'violations, the annual accident record rec-ord can be reduced to a negligible i figure. I ' ' |