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Show TOURISTS AVOID NIGHTJRIVING Clearance Space is Insufficient Insuffi-cient for Safety Even in Daylight. More than 70 per cent of all motor tourists avoid night driving whenever possible, according to an analysis made by the touring bureau of the Chicago Motor club of statistics gathered gath-ered by the national touring board of the American Automobile association. Fears of Motorists. "Our analysis discloses that the fears of those motorists are fourfold," declared Charles M. Hayes, president of the club. "First, many main highways high-ways are narrow, 16 or lS-foot concrete con-crete strips. The clearance between passing cars is Insufficient from a safety standpoint in daylight; it Is, In the case of some drivers, dangerously close at night; secondly, there is the headlight menace; thirdly, poor visibility visi-bility of highway signs, and finally, the prevalance of intoxicated drivers on the highway at night. "The. narrow roads are, to some extent, ex-tent, being eliminated. In some metropolitan metro-politan areas the counties have widened wid-ened them to 40 feet, but this great movement is yet In its infancy. A vast amount of work is to be dona Eliminate Hazards. "All of these hazards can be successfully suc-cessfully eliminated if the right steps are taken. Headlights can be standardized stand-ardized and adjusted in such a way as to eliminate glare. Frequent Inspection In-spection and enforcement is the cure, once a uniform safety standard has been agreed upon. "The inadequacy of signs, of which so many motorists visiting our touring tour-ing bureau complain, Is not due so much to the character of the signs as the positions in which they are placed. Ofttimes they are well out of the easy range of the headlights of a car, and the car owner must come to a full stop and 'comb' the landscape for them with his spotlight. If he has one. "The answer to the drunken driver menace is prosecution to the limit Were all of these conditions surrounding surround-ing night driving removed, or remedied to a large degree, far more motorists would drive at night, with a resulting decrease In the congestion on highways high-ways during daylight hours." |