Show I OUR FELLOW DRIVERS By Bv Mueller ill I Ii n Ii i i I. I I N Trawl 8 earty f ty 8 We a three tine highway in he vy traffic end and the dope thought Id I'd Itt let him p pass pt u MEI Terrifying though it may sound there is no escaping he fact that every very automobile i is a potential killer once is ts wheels begin to roll And the faster the wheels turn 10 o does the grin on Deaths Death's face grow wider wider for for Death lurks everywhere along the tile highway flapping his hig black I as aM he lie speeds along There is one definitely established fact in the relationship relation relation- hip ship between speed and safety and that is that accidents resu ting in death occur less than half as often in cars carl traveling tra under 40 miles an hour as aa in cars whose whole who e spee speed i is between 40 and and 50 And speed over 50 mires miles and hour means mens that death will strike in one accident out of eVer every r eleven Being a woman you ou may be exempt from some of the speed impulses that come over men Figures do show that the average a speed of women drivers is several miles slower slow slow- er 01 r than that of men but modern cars being wh what t they are tire slick and insidious in pickup the woman driver is Clen equally guilty of the most moot cardinal of all speed sins sins sins- speeding in excess of driving conditions such as a skiddy road night driving poor visibility around curves an old car ar etc Speed zoning is an excellent precaution precaution- With maps harts photographs and mileage before them traffic traffic fic engineers survey the whole main highway system of ofa a It state mark off all dangerous stretches and figure out the top safe speed for each That speed peed is then marked on roadside signs 5 |