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Show Scared? You Should Be ii-c purpose of this editorial is to scare the living daylights out of you; to frighten you to the point that you will not only drive carefully but rigidly observe every safety precaution. Consider these 1964 facts: 48,000 persons were killed in traffic accidents, more than in any previous year, and within 5,000 of all the American servicemen killed in battle In World War I. 587 men, women, and children lost their lives in automobile auto-mobile accidents over the Christman week end, an all-time record that brought sorrow and misery to their loved ones at a time that should be given over to joyfulness. Two million persons were injured in automobile mishaps mis-haps and the cost of the damage hit $8 billion. If these stark figures do not have any effect on you, if they do not make you vow to adhere to every safety measure in the book, then nothing will. You know all the things you are supposed to do to insure a sale trip whether whe-ther you are going a few blocks or a few thousand miles Things like driving carefully, observing all traffic rules, keeping tires in top condition, using seat belts, having brakes and steering apparatus checked regularly, seeing that signal lights are in order and having functional windshield wind-shield wipers. One little slip from prudent roadway practice and you may be one of the fatal statistics that other people will read about in editorials like this one. |