Iron County Record | 1952-01-03 | Page 4 | On Glare Ice Even 20-Mile Speed Can Spell Trouble

1 I On Glare Ice Even 20-Mile Speed Can Spell Trouble "You. can't stop on an icy dime!" This was H. E. Christensen's warning to Cedar City motorists today as heavy snow threatened to pack down dangerously or turn into glare ice. "At only 20 miles an hour," Mr. Christensen said, "it takes the average car with good brakes about 175 feet 11 car lengths to stop on glare ice. And yet, untold thousands of motorists consider 20 miles an hour a SAFE speed on ice." With tire chains on the rear wheels, a car traveling at 20 miles an hour can stop in about five car lengths, according to the Cedar City Safety committee. "In one out of five fatal accidents acci-dents last year," Mr. Christensen said, "the road surface was reported re-ported wet, muddy, snowy or Icy. Only two of these factors strictly speaKing are unique 10 winter, but there is little doubt that such conditions are far more prevalent at this time of year than at any other." The Cedar City Safety committee, commit-tee, which is spearheading a program this month in cooperation coopera-tion with the National Safety Council to educate the public to the dangers of winter driving, labeled la-beled January one of "the deadliest dead-liest months of the year in terms of fatar traffic accidents. "More thon 3,000 persons died in traffic accidents Jast January alone," Mr. Christensen said. "A little 'winter-sense' in driving and car care would undoubtedly have saved many of those lives. Tire chains won't save the motorist motor-ist who is driving faster than he should, or course, but they CAN save the rest of us those who drive with our effective stopping stop-ping distance well In mind!"