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Show K'-;:,;a;UT0M0mLE 'WRECKS H;4'f Most' people, who drive an automobile :;;,;ao., not realize the tremendous power of kI '5;.!. 'tfie mechanism, nor the damage that it HFt , can-do; if not correctly controlled. But , HI-; T the garages that handle .automobile HlI TX wrecksToften see things that the" general , Kl? - public might mR lctfOlT. '; - Bl'' There; is a tendency among many: H1'V ' newspaper reporters, in .cases where a HI' ,;'' ' bad. accident results from carelessness, Hi y s to gloss over the affair, They have soijio , HJ; :'J feelings for the relatives . of the dead HIO; t man' and' do .not like always to .reveal mmV-"-f the whole story of his folly. While this M,:'' ' attitude is creditable to a reporter's sym-B'M sym-B'M pathies;yet. it would be for the public '.. .-advantage, to' know why -these things I.V "'happen.;' Hl'.. A high speeding car is easily deflected Hfl I, 'bv fulta in the road so that it will leave Hj "" the traveled wy. A friend tells us of a HI 7 ' ce where a car thus sideswiped an ob-HI''; ob-HI''; '" Btruction several outside the traveled Hl ,V Toad on' one -side. The wheeel was H JK - - wrenched from the drivers' hands, the Hf - ,r car crossed the road obliquely, climbed a 4 bank a yard ihigh, turned "turtle ,and H:-,pinnd the driver underneath. When Hf Vr V - Kelp arrived, Je victim was piteously H v'-'-'-'' calling for assistance and died within an H t hour.5 Yvy m Wr' , .The 'energy in a big car is "enough to H '-- turn the wheels of a good sized factory. H ,'?:... The driver does not realize the havoc it H t"l i can create1, or the dangerous positions it m -j-t. can get into, if it strikes another car or B 'V leaves the traveled way. Mt would do H, fV manylpeople good to be present at one of M ' ' these wrecks, and hear the piteous wails ' I ' of a victimrCijllingior help. H " J As autoino)le; travel increases, the M' Mght of wrecks along the way become more common, and should be a warning- against reckless driving to all who pass and observe their ghastly details. , to n ft |
