Show A I Drive to to Save Lives Begins I By fry B WILLIAM C. C UTLEY Nt NE of ot every twenty of you yon O ONE who read this will be killed or Injured In tn a motor vehicle ve so- hide hicle accident within the next fI five ve years This Is U based upon the tact fact that one person out of ot ever every hundred was so 10 killed kilted or Injured In 10 JIU 1034 and lo 1033 1035 Further conclusions would Indicate that unless you ou are above the average In safety lafety one out of ot four tour of ot you IOU will be Injured within 25 years ear and one ODe out of five within 20 0 years Unless something Is II done about It UI I Something Is fe being done about It and there Is II not a person In 10 the United States who Is I. not Invited even urged to do his hla share In 10 pro pro- protesting protecting testing his hi own life and the lives of ot Other Amerl Americans ans Itu nut But first Ort a little more about the problem lem lam America faces tace Despite early Indications that promised Improvement In accident prevention the year ear 1035 closed with the ghastly toll of ot deaths deatha In ID motor vehicle accidents soaring to toa a new time all mark There were traffic c deaths as compared with for the previous year 1034 From rom 1033 to 1914 11 these deaths death hideous painful messy deaths most mOIl of or them them Increased Increased 1 15 per cent Snuffs Out Lives at Start In the last three years more than children less lesi than thao fifteen years ears of ot age went to lo their untimely deaths In ID traffic accidents thousands thousands thou thou- sands land more will never oever play ball baU dance dance- write read or be able to pursue successfully the happiness that Is III every Americans American's right be be- cause they have been crippled or blinded or cruelly cut cul up What may come as aa a surprise loome to lo tome some Is III that fatal motor accidents In rural districts lead those In the cities b by a wide margin In 10 1034 60 00 per cent of ot alt all such Inch fatalities occurred occurred oc oc- oc In the rural districts anal ami the figure swelled to 03 per cent In 1035 1915 What to do about It Perhaps we might take a lesson from the railroads In 10 the early days they thel a. a CITIES tITlES Si r r 1114 1 U II 14 W N It 71 I N 11 U 14 ce U i How cities cites and rural highways compare com corn I pare par In fatal traffic accidents were called Instrumentalities a of the devil himself Wreck after afler wreck wreck ghastly ghostly and und deadly threat deadly threat threatened ened the very life of the roads roud They had to do something They dill did The They set lel a definite goal of ot safety o of or lives saved which they were determined to reach They Installed better rolling roiling stock better betler roadways Improved personnel personnel person person- nel and safety devices They Ther educated educated ed Id their employees They reached It What that goal was mathematically Is la purposely left out out because It II doesn't maUer What does matter malter Is la that the railroads I established a definite objective and refused to give KITe up until It was attained America has hos under way toda today just such luch a campaign to reach a definite nile alto objective The war to save lave lives vea started January 1 and It U Is II being conducted by hI the National Safety Council with tube tile cooperation cooperation opera co tion of ot Industries and federal state count county and aud ell city governments Would Save Lives Live This Thill Is II a war to SAVE SAYE lives not notto notto notto to destroy them If It It gets geu the the cooperation cooperation cooperation co co- operation of ot the American people people It will save The definite goal coal Is a reduction of ot 35 per per cent In moto motol vehicle deaths by the end endot of ot 1040 In tn the National Safety Councils Council's campaign motor deaths the total for t 1035 1915 Is II taken as par During the first year of ot the drive the present the goal foal Is II year a D reduction reduction re rev of ot 7 T per cent In the number num nurn- ber bet of ot these deaths deatha an actual saving say sav lag ing of ot 2543 2548 lives leaving a II total of ot 33 2 deaths for the year 1031 1030 The records of many cities and states lattS during durins l the peel past year Justifies Justin the belief bellet that the goal can cao be ob oh- tamed says suye a report of ot the Council Council Coun Coun- cil 1 If It a dozen states can cao reduce their fatalities all the way from 7 t tto to 23 per cent In 10 a year when the average e waa was going up op as II It was wal last lut J year ar other states should be beable beable able to effect substantial reductions reduction b by using the name same Intelligent accident acci acci- accident dent prevention methods The tools for tor accident prevention prevention tion are at hand as will be he shown One of ot the chief problems problem facing such auch a drive Is II organization Inarea In ln areas area of pt t scattered population It Is not Dot so 0 difficult to tn cement and nn t the e Interest of civic chiC organizations u where there are large masses of or I people opio as all there ther are art In the th cities Hut It Is II In rural that hlll itt fri mIer per Ier cent of the Ihl r filial fatal III I a o OC nn OCcur cur 1 much m nf or he the work for tor th these there il ant tt I. I le Ail ad from isle inte It hut bur d r x xyr r gi k MS Z a t A T TM Ta a M 1 Smashups on rural highways caused 63 per cent of or the traffic deaths deatha during 1935 1035 Below a typical accident scene Icene are ar shown W. W W. W Cameron left managing director of or the National Safety Coun Council ll and Dr 0 C. C H. H Watson Watton president signing resolution starting campaign to cut fatal atal motor vehicle accidents accident 35 per cent by 1940 In to the final analysts analysis the reaching of the goal loal Ilea lies with the Individual An Educational Campaign For the yer very reason that It IS Individual Individual In In- acceptance which can cao make or break the campaign It will be largely an educational one It U will willbe willbe be localized for tor each earh state slate and for tor virtually each earh city maintaining cooperation cooperation co en- operation with public officials traffic trot trot- fie fic safety leaders safety groups educational heads civic organizations dons and Individuals It Is la planned to ordinate co-ordinate much of ot the existing safety effort along lines which watch will make that effort permanent and consistent rather rather than spasmodic New ways of ot to the them tu motorist to arouse a sense lense of ot responsibility and 8 sportsmanship sportsmanship sportsman sportsman- ship are being sought State wide State school programs are being started Organizations under the leadership leadership leader leader- ship of the 1 National Safet Safety Council Coun Coon Coun cil eil will wilt urge the adoption of ot uniform uni form turm laws lows Including standard drivers drivers' ers era lI license ense legislation ll lion and adequate ade adequate adequate ade ade- quate administration of law law ing bodies They will attempt pi to standardize accident reports provide pro pro pro- provide vide fide for more complete statistics and their Interpretation Uon One of ot the Important steps will be to make moke available to the country at large larKe The engineering and edu educational technique of the states and cities titles now new doing outstanding work The National Safety Council will place Ilace eight n field ld men In key kel points of the United States to ordinate co-ordinate the work Booklets written In popular pop pOI popular ular style and explaining the methods methods meth meth- of successful campaigns along engineering enforcement and educational edu edn- lines lints will be prepared for tor nationwide distribution Services to newspapers will be Improved and expanded Only Five States Still Out As this Is written 43 states and the District of ot Columbia have baye endorsed endorsed en eo the campaign and pledged their wholehearted support Ex Ex- v S St Sv t wilt a a. a PEDESTRIAN e a 1 X g OTHER VEHICLE II J I. I sz I r FIXED OBJECT 7 4 ie ax NON COLLISION e Deaths Death caused by various types of motor vehicle accidents In cities and on rural highways highway of the National Safety Q Council expect to have all III 48 states behind the drive within the next few rew weeks So Some DIe of ot the things already accomplished accomplished ac ac- by the drive even In Its present Infancy 0 make an Imposing list tIli t Iii Ili Maine Alaine the system of standard standard stand stand- ard accident r reporting U la being pro pro- motel Governor Wilbur U L. Gloss tosa of or Con Con- Connecticut Connecticut has hal appointed a Committee Corn Com of Seventeen to carr carry ona on 00 ona a safety crusade A II bill bm h. h has been Introduced ID in the New Tort fork legislature to create a bard of ot Safety Safely First Arnold II Vey ey Truffle Engineer In the New Jersey department of ot ve vehicles s has haa just JUI submitted l consul and laws by-laws fi tor r floe H tI e Ne Nevi t Jersey Safety A A. II handler of ot Kei Ket lucky tucky has baa delegated the adjutant general to formulate a statewide safety program Indiana has started a safety campaign N. N Y V. A A. A Assists In Michigan Governor F V. D. D Fitzgerald of ot Michigan has bas appointed a State Slate Safety Safet Council and plans are under underway way for tor the expenditure of ot In 10 N National Youth Administration funds to conduct a safety project A state stale safety director la ta to be appointed Immediately Jn In n Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin The new newly 11 organized Iowa Sar Safety ty Council Is le already making consid considerable erable enable headway Safety Director Asher Frank bt ot Florida recently conducted a two- two do day wide state-wide safet safety conference A permanent state sa safety tel commission com corn mission Is being formed In 10 Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa home growing out of ot a three months' months highway safety safely campaign A state safety director has haa been appointed In 10 Nebraska New Ney Mexico plans a wide state-wide safety conference California Massachusetts Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania Delaware Illinois Minnesota Minne Minne- t sota ta Kansas and other states are areat areat areat at work on on safety programs The campaign should not oot only save lives It II should materially decrease decrease decrease de de- crease the number of ot Injuries More than thao a I quarter of ot a million persons last year escaped with their lives from traffic accidents but hut bore the marks of ot Injury More than OlIO however will be crippled to th the end of their days day Suggestions From Harvard Doctor Miller McClIntock of ot Harvard liar Har yard vard university saYI says accidents are caused by bl four tour types of ot conflicts on the highways regardless of speed which affects only the severity of ot the accident T They ey are 1 I. Overlaps In tn the paths of ot approaching approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap vehicles head on bead on collisions collis collie ions 1001 etc ete 2 Overlaps between the moving vehicles and objects at side of ot road Impact Import with parked cars bridge abutments etc 3 Intersection accidents 4 4 Internal stream conflict due to the difference In 10 speeds of ot vehicles ve so- e- e hides moving In tn same direction Overcoming the Difficulties The proper highway would overcome over come all four of ot these basic difficulties dim Doctor McClintock Its Ita requirements would be 1 Physical separation of ot the two streams of ot traffic moving In 10 opposite opposite opposite site directions The new Dew roads with parkways down the middle meet this thia requirement 2 Traffic lanes reserved for mo zoos tog Ing vehicles on only I There would beno be beno beno no parking S 3 No grade crossings for tor any anI type of ot intersectional traffic 4 Sufficient number of ot lanes for tor forthe forthe the segregation of ot fast and Slow Io ye e hides and provision for tor acceleration acceleration tion and deceleration lanes Of more alore Immediate Importance are the clarification and enforcement enforce ment went of ot existing safety codes especially especially especially es es- as II they concern the Indi Individual vidual who Is II not likely to be workIng work work- lug Ing directly with one of the organ organ- organizations engaged In the campaign The battle can be won says M. M W W. W Cameron managing director of ot th the National Safety Council If It every enry person will take It upon himself him self to drive carefully keeping his eyes elea on the road and his mind on o his bis driving obey Obel the laws aol and support sup sup- port law enforcement officials 5 main tain tamn a safe speed peed at all aU times t I keep his bis car In a observe the rights of or p and chil ehU dren be courteous and sportsmanlike sportsman sportsman- like ant coil and set a good example to others That's the challenge Its Iti op tip tn to the Individual C CI W Wr w l m Nt N. that u.- u. |