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Show Holiday Rush, Short Days Contribute To Traffic Hazards "Avoid holidaze and enjoy the holidays!" This was the advice given Cedar Ce-dar City motorists and pedestrians pedestri-ans today by Frank Dalley. Mr. Dalley characterized holidaze holi-daze as a mixture that constitutes consti-tutes an intangible holiday hazard. haz-ard. "Holiday Hazards" is the December De-cember traffic safety theme of the safety committee of the Cedar Ce-dar City Coordinating Council, and the National Safety council. "Holi-daze," Mr. Dalley said, "is made up of last-minute shopping, shop-ping, office parties, home celebrations, cele-brations, distracting holiday sights and sounds, crowded streets and hurrying pedestrians and motorists. "No one of these items by itself it-self can be called a holiday hazard," haz-ard," he said, "but put them all together and they result in heed-lesness heed-lesness that makes both motorists motor-ists and pedestrians more careless care-less than usual. "Worst of all," he said, "holidaze "holi-daze operate when winter driving hazards are at their height. "Pavements are icy and slippery, slip-pery, snow and ice collect on windshields, pedestrians frequently fre-quently are blinded by umbrellas umbrel-las and armsful of packages, and darkness falls earlier than usual. "That's a combination that usually us-ually makes the traffic death toll higher in December than in any other month," he said. The Cedar City Safety council urges motorists and pedestrians to help reduce the traffic death toll this December by observing the customary rules of courtesy and good sense in walking and driving. "In addition," Mr. Dalley said, "motorists and pedestrians should remember that holidays can and do result in holi-daze and that extra walking and driving driv-ing care and vigilance are as-sential as-sential to safety at this time of the vear." |
