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Show THE PRICE OF HASTE. "Haste," according to the Travelers Insurance company, "causes nine out of ten automobile accident deaths." There are various forms of hasty driving all of them reprehensible, all generally unnecessary. Exceeding the speed limit is the most common form -and is the most important single sin-gle cause of fatal accidents. Reckless driving such as cutting in and out of traffic, passing on hills and curves, etc. is another form. So is driving on the wrong side of the road. So is usurping the' right-of-way which is an especially prolific source of accidents, serious and minor, in towns and cities. Last year haste, in its many forms, was the direct cause of about 30,000 ! deaths, to say nothing of hundreds of thousands of injures, and property damage running into the millions. At best, those hasty drivers might have saved a few seconds or a few min-1 utes by being reckless they might have reached some distant objective half an hour sooner than if they had driven carefully. What a price they J and their innocent victims paid for that potential saving in time. For every driver who is hasty because be-cause of genuine need to get some-where some-where 'n a hurry, a hundred drivers are hasty for no sound reason at all because they are congenitally care-less, care-less, irresponsible or incompetent. How long are we going to permit these drivers to sacrif 'ce thousands of lives a year on the altar of reck-; lessness? |