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Show i u i. 111 II " -- "" - f- -- wnvmmmamiHSS "' " t I ' ) - t I , .t , - ; , : . r This grimly graphic picture (above) of a little boy lying crumpled on the street before the wheel of a truck was given top award in the 1949 police photography contest conducted by the Traffic Review, magazine of the Traffic Institute of Northwestern university. The picture was taken by W. P. Hinkens of the Los Angeles police department. ; playX Ml: J , STREET j . s f closed M- :" - ? ;rv ' ' ?,- ir .Ik - -zTv4 I j ' 'j'l - i 1 f . . v. , . .... .v i ' .1. . . H . Q In the photo at right, a uniformed policeman is giving a safety talk to on eager group of children. chil-dren. The children are using a "play street" in New York City. This sort of activity is becoming more and more familiar os officials try to make for good traffic and safety procedures by training, youngsters in safety principles before they become vehicle operators op-erators themselves. Shown below is a young boy who was riding his bike to school. He made 1 a turn too fast and too ' wide and was killed in- stantly when struck by a truck. Through education educa-tion as widely distributed as possible, Northwestern t university's traffic institute insti-tute seeks to prevent tragedies such as this. I A - A r" 'V' ' ".. . - - v ' , I IP,--;. . J -v- '"""""w-mraaiS O This picture (left) shows a man's hands holding two parts of the rim of a headlight head-light together. One piece was found at the scene of a hit-run accident, the other in a garage five days later. The driver's car was being repaired there. He was arrested and pleaded guilty. Taken by Charles Epperson Ep-person of the Indiana state police and entitled "Hit and Run Evidence," the photograph photo-graph was awarded first prize in the General Policing Polic-ing classification of the annual an-nual contest. |