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Show Shall We Kill, Die, Or live Winter, with its hazards for motorists and pedestrians alike, is just ahead. Icy roads and poor visibility will make motoring and walking dangerous. Deaths and injuries always have increased in the months of ice and snow. Only On-ly caution and watchfulness can prevent such an increase , this year. The automobile manufacturers are building more safety safe-ty into cars than ever before. The brakes are better. The lights art better. Tire design and composition has been especially improved for winter driving. Highway planning plan-ning departments are building safer roads. But all of this margin of safety is thrown away if the motorist increases his speed and decreases his caution because he has been provided with greater mechanical safety. The only thing which will prevent Utah from having a better record rec-ord than last year is the senseless waste of this extra margin mar-gin of safety now available for winter driving. Pedestrians must be cautious. They must bear in mind that visibility will be less in the months to come and that the stopping distance for a moving automobile has been increased eight or ten times over the stopping distance of last summer. Pedestrians must realize that a motorist may desire to stop and not be able to do so because of the condition of the road. The motorist must be extra cautious while he is learning over again the feel of winter win-ter driving. The time when pedestrians and motorists alike are adjusting to winter conditions is the most dangerous dan-gerous time of all. Parents must realize the new conditions caused by the changing season. It is their duty, if they wish to avert tragedy, to properly instruct their children in the useof winter toys. A small child does not remember last winter and its dangers. BE CAUTIOUS! BE HUMANE! TAKE TIME TO SAVE A LIFE! |