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Show "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" (Taken from State Highway Patrol Bulletin) "An important part of the skill of the safety engineer in plant or garage is in arousing the sense of personal responsibility re-sponsibility of the individual workman or driver." Without that, safety guards and safety rules can fail. "And without private passenger car drivers who feel personal responsibility for others as well as themselves, the best of engineering and enforcement cannot be fully effective on the highways. "So it becomes a moral issue, 'Am I my brother's keeper?' " Mayor Earl J. Glade of Salt Lake City, recently answered an-swered this question with his own point of view: "No, I am not my brother's keeper. I am my brother's brother." Indeed, a less thoughtful and serious reply on the part of any licensed vehicle driver would indicate flouting of God, as Cain did when he uttered the words presented in the Bible, and also flouting death itself. For it is those who are "my brother's brother" those who drive defensively - who survive in modern traffic. One national authority has stated "the time is passed when drivers can push through traffic, without regard to others, and expect to live." He termed "defensive driving" the only semi-safe driving under modern traffic conditions. condi-tions. Commissioner Snow, speaking before a safety meeting meet-ing in Salt Lake City recently, stated: "15 of the drivers obey all the rules and regulations. Another 15 are incorrigible, incor-rigible, and are usually dealt with in due time by courts and law enforcement agencies. But it is the other 70 who must be reached with a message of safety." And who is having the accidents? If the current volume vol-ume of accidents-about 15,000 last year-persists in Utah, one of every 16 vehicles registered in Utah will be involved in-volved in a reportable accident during 1952. Indeed it is the "other 70" who must be reached. H. G. Kemper, an insurance executive of national prominence, prom-inence, recently stated: "Ten per cent more time taken in driving and applied to intersections, hills curves and other critical situations, would prevent 90 of the fatalities." fatali-ties." It is the Patrol's duty to help produce that extra 10 of time and caution. ( H. G. Kemper, The Journal of Commerce, New York, Jan. 24, 1952). |