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Show Monimiitiom Cmvys Aka " "Aoidieal". "Mazzairds flDnn DUfigflnwaay -I Warning Given lly Officers Motorists Must Give Preference To Train And Truck Travel Military transportation of men and munitions of war are being carried forward every minute of the day by railroad trains and motor mo-tor vehicles. This calls for the greatest alertness upon the part of not only operators of every kind of a vehicle but pedestrians as well. This warning is reiterated by Commissioner Com-missioner J L. Balderston of the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement, Enforce-ment, after studying the reports of drivers of motor vehicles who have crashed into railroad trains as well as those who .have 'cut in or shot across' intersections when military convoys weie-passing. ' "Repeated warnings have been given -that many trucks in military convoys as well as freight cars may be loaded with high explosives that are easily touched off with the slightest concussion caused by collision col-lision and the possible fearful disaster dis-aster that would follow, save not seemed to 'sink in' with the traveling travel-ing public. State police officers, in cars- equipped with signs reading read-ing 'DANGER, MILITARY CONVOY', CON-VOY', have reported cases where motorists have disregarded warn- n. ..... i , nigo given uiieiu.- vv c aiau luivtj ic- ports of drivers who have Been killed by speeding trains. Two of the recent fatal accidents, mat have come to my attention, are where the drivers have had trucks stalled upon railroad tracks in the path of trains. Another case was a driver who crashed into the locomotive loco-motive of a train on a branch line because he did not heed the warning warn-ing 'STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN'. Fortunately the driver and his wife escaped death. "So far we have been very lucky in these crashes," said ' Commissioner Commis-sioner Balderston, "but I tremble to visualize what havoc that would be wrought with the loss of life and property and the delay to the war program if wrecks caused the explosion of a truck or freight car loaded with T.N.T." |