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Show THE MAN NOT HIS CAR ' According to a brief article in The Safe Driver, a publication of the National Safety council, about 90 per cent of all motor vehicle ve-hicle accidents can be charged to three things: Bad judgment, carelessness and stupidity. In a recent study of over a million motor accidents, it was found that the entire share of fatal accidents acci-dents attributable to defects in the car amounted to only about 11 per cent, while for non-fatal accidents the car was defective in but five per cent of the cases. In other words, nine accidents out of 10 are the fault of the man who drives the car, and not the car itself. As Dr. Miller Mc-Clintoak Mc-Clintoak of Harvard has phrased it, the remedy is to convince! man that he must live up to his car. When he reaches as high a degree of perfection in his driving as the modern automobile represents, re-presents, deaths on streets and highways will be due for a 90 per cent drop. The modern highway is often congested. Traffic moves fast. There is no time for absent-nlindedness, for a single instant of distraction from the job at hand. Everyone who drives an automobile auto-mobile should keep in the front of his mind the trinity of destruction: destruc-tion: Bad judgment, carelessness, stupidity. |
