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Show j THE MAN NOT HIS CAR. According to a brief article in The Safe Driver, a publication of the National Na-tional Safety Courrcil, about 90 per cent of all motor vehicle accidents can be charged to three things: Bad jjudgment, carelessness and stupidity. In a recent study of over a million motor accidents, it was found that the 'entire share of fatal accidents attributable at-tributable to defects in the car amounted to only about 11 per cent, while for non-fatal accidents the car was defective in but 5 per cent of the cases. In other words, 9 accidents out of 10 are the fault of the man who "irives the car, and not the car itself. As Dr. Miller JlcClintock, of Harvard, Har-vard, has phrased it, the remedy is to convince man that he must live up to his car. When he reaches as high a degree of pefection in his driving as the modern automobile represents, deaths on streets and highways wiil be due for a 90 per cent drop. The. modern highway is often congested. con-gested. Traffic moves fast. There b no time for absent-mindedness, for a single instant of distraction from the j job at har. d. Everyone who drives an' automobile should keep in the front' of his mind the trinity of destruction: Bad judgnunt, carelessness, stupidity. |