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Show Danger of Leaving Stopped Cars Partially On Highway Stressed by Safety Council "Get that thing off the road." is a widely used phrase often; flung at the driver of some old j rattletrap heap that is poking slowly along the highway. Sometimes Some-times it is hollered at him in jest, and sometimes in anger. But the Utah Safety Council today reminded Utahns of the critical importance of getting the car well off the road when forced to make an emergency stop for I any reason. Many serious accidents acci-dents have occurred because of failure to do so. Like most other traffic accidents, they could have been avoided by compliance with the law and the use of good common sense. The changing of a tire, refill-jing refill-jing the radiator, relieving a driv-! driv-! er. cheeking motor trouble, or j any other such thing requires the driver to pull the car completely 'off the pavement. This for the ! safety of the parked car and the 'protection of oilier cars as well. I "Some people just dmi't realize the danger they put themselves I in when they stop along the 'highway and leave part of the I car on the pavement. In more eases than we like to remember the part of the ear left on the i pavement ends up one place and the part on the road shoulder ends up in another i lace, w ith I broken bodies in between." said G. Frnest Bourne, executive secret sec-ret a rv qf the Utah Safetv Council.. Coun-cil.. "I know that gory reference to accidents are not nice, hut neither nei-ther are the accidents themselves nice," he said, "and until people begin to think for themselves and habitually pull completely off the road at such times, thL type of accident will frequently happen." I The Safety Council spokesmen pointed out that many people- have the attitude that, "well, . people driving up can se us parked here and will turn out i for us." That may well be the lease in some instances, but or 'other occasions the driver may not really see the parked car until un-til it's too lote. In still other cases two cars approaching frorrn opposite directions would pasi precisely at the spot of the parked park-ed car. If the road, is narrow or this happens at night on docs; ! not often need much imagination to understand what could easily, and often does, happen, j "Get that car off the road," is. jseiiou.s advice 10 times more so than it is mockery," Mr. Bourne-j Bourne-j concluded. I |
