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Show HAZARDS WORTH HEEDING It would be a good thing if all automobile drivers were required re-quired to learn a little lesson concerning the potential destructive power of a moving car, and the great distances required to stop. A car moving at the slow speed of twenty miles an hour requires re-quires 20 feet to stop under the best of circumstances after 1-wheel 1-wheel breaks are applied and with the average driver, it will have moved 14 and one-half feet before he is able to apply the brakes. At 30 miles an hour, it will go 22 feet before he applies the brakes, and another 45 feet will be required to bring it to a stop. If he is moving 40 miles an hour, the brakes will not take hold until the car has gone 29 feet and 80 feet more will be covered cov-ered before the car is stopped. At extremely high speeds these distances are increased many times. How would you like to be in an automobile that has just leaped leap-ed from a precipice one hundred or more feet high? You would be just as safe (at least until you hit the rocks below) as you are rolling along the highways mile after mile at customary road speeds. An automobile traveling 40 miles an hour has the same capacity for inflicting damage, or the same smash as it would have from a straight drop through the air 51 feet and going GO miles per hour, as if it were dropped 120 feet. The automobile is one of the most useful, and one of the most potentially dangerous, of human inventions. Its safe operation requires constant caution, knowledge and regard for the rights of others. Iiecause a percentage of drivers have lacked those qualities the highways of America see the unnecessary deaths of more than 30,000 people annually. Last year a slight improvement improve-ment was registered this year we can do a great deal more if we make the effort. It is a problem that is up to the individual driver, dri-ver, and its solution is in his hands. |