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Show THE MOTORISTS WHO TAKE CHANCES You see them on streets and highways every day motorists who take chances. You see them turning' corners at high speeds. Or stealing another car's right-of-ay. Or passing on hills and curves. Or driving on the wrong side of the road. Or cutting in and out of thick traffic. Or coming roaring into intersections and road junctions without looking to either side. Or operating at speeds which are obviously higher than are safe under driving conditions condi-tions of the jmoment. And, every once in a while, you see such a motorist cause an accident. Perhaps there is little damage done. Or perhaps a life is lost and valuable property is needlessly needless-ly destroyed. The reckless motorist comprises ten per cent or less of the driving population. But he causes ninety per cent of the accidents. acci-dents. If the reckless drivers simply injured each other it would not be particularly important to the rest of us. But they seldom do that they maim and kill the careful, the competent, the prudent. And you never know who's going to be next. This year about thirty thousand people are going to be killed kill-ed because someone was careless, reckless, discourteous. Not one of a thousand of those deaths is really due to an unavoidable accident ac-cident an occurrence which is almost as rare as the dodo. They can all be prevented, and they will be when there is a concerted public drive against those who make places of carnage out of public highways. |