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Show Cedar City Safety Council Reviews j Rules for Pedestrians on Highway j "Don't walk yourself to death". That warning was issued to-1 day by Leland Heywood in outlining out-lining the objectives of the Cedar City Safety Council's October program of traffic safety edu- cation. Mr. Heywood referred to statistical statis-tical studies made by the National Na-tional Safety Council to support his contention that pedestrian deaths rise sharply with the increasing in-creasing number of hours of darkness of September, October, and November until Ihey reach a staggering high in December. "The big jump in pedestrian deaths," Mr. Heywood said, "comes in October when these fatalities leap to about 25 per cent above the monthly average for the rest of the year. "In breaking down this figure, it is significant to find that about 71 per cent of all pedestrians pedes-trians killed in October suffer this fate during the hours of darkness." Two widespread pedestrirn misconceptions mis-conceptions were cited by the Cedar City Safety Council as big factors in that group's annual nighttime death toll. "The misconception that has probably led to more pedestrian deaths than any other single j cause," Mr. Heywood said, "is the pedestrian's mistaken notion that HE is as visable to oncoming drivers as the headlights of the car make It to him. He fails to realize that the driver he can see approaching nearly a mile away may not actually see him walking walk-ing in the roadway until he is just a few yards away. The results re-sults can be disastrous." Mr. Heywood pointed out that the other major factor leading to such accidents is the pedestrian's pedestri-an's inability to judge distances and speeds accurately at night. "The files are full of the records rec-ords of pedestrians who thought they had time to cross the street before the approaching head- lltrhta wprp on them" hi said. The Safety Council outlined the following safe walking rules for particular observance at night. 1. Obey all traffic signals. 2. Look both ways before stepping step-ping onto the street. 3. Take into account the fact that approaching cars are probably prob-ably traveling much faster than they seem. 4. Remember that the driver I cannot see you until practically on top of you. 5. Wear something white at night. 6. Walk facing oncoming traffic traf-fic if no sidewalks are available. |