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Show ' Serious Threat Seen ' ' in Grade Crossings The tourist season has come ' to be recognized as the season . , of most numerous nutomobile j accidents. In this connection grade crossings loom up as a serious threat to highway safe- ' f ty, and there will be the usual I , number of fatal accidents and t untold suffering unless motor-' motor-' Ists exercise every precaution. 1 For the benefit of motorists, i , the officials of a large nutomo- , bile association issued the following fol-lowing suggestions on npproaeh- "lng railroad crossings: ' i Don't trust to signals and . signs at grade crossings unless there is a watchman present. ' Pon't approach a railroad ' i grade crossing at oilier than an , extremely low rate of speed. , Don't blow your horn or carrion carri-on a conversation that is liable ' i to drown out- the sound of an ' , npproaohi!: train. , Don't shift gears while on the ' tracks. If it Is an upgrade. change before starting uphill ' , and cross the tracks in low or intermediate. Don't take the chance of run- ning out of gas on railroad ' f tracks. , Don't forget that a train trav- ( els on a fixed path and cannot swerve. ' Don't forget to always stop ' , before crossing the tracks if the , approach is around a curve that Is liable to shut off the view of ' ' an approaching train. i -Don't forgot that there may he a second section, or if double tracks, a train coming from the ' opposite direction of the one ' f that has Just passed. |