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Show POLICE CHIEF GIVES SOUND SAFETY RULES Head of Pennsylvania Troopers Promulgates Fifteen Tips to Reduce Accidents. Maj. Lynn G. Adams, superintendent superintend-ent of the Pennsylvania state police force, recently promulgated the following fol-lowing simple rules which, he said, if observed by all motorists, would reduce re-duce the number of accidents on the highways 95 per cent. The rules are as follows: 1. Read the automobile laws of your state carefully. 2. Never travel at a high rate of speed over a road with which you are unfamiliar. 3. Never drive, at any time, on the wrong side of the highway. 4. Heed warning signs. 5. Never pass, or attempt to pass, a car going in the same direction at the crest of a bill or on a curve. 0. Never stop youv car just over the brow of a hill or just around a curve. 7. Never follow a car traveling at a high rate of speed at less distance than 50 yards. 8. If you wish to pass another car going in your direction choose a long, straight stretch of road. 9. When you are traveling at a chosen rate of speed don't "speed up" because someone attempts to pass you. 10. Make careful and frequent inspections in-spections and tests of your brakes. 11. Never use bulbs of higher can-dlepower can-dlepower than those prescribed by law for your lenses. 12. Inspect your tail light frequently. frequent-ly. This light marks the position of your car for the following driver, who may be facing light of an oncoming automobile. 13. Remember that the taking of a human life by doing a lawful act in an unlawful manner is involuntary manslaughter, a crime punishable by a prison sentence. 14. Remember that every time you "take a chance" you are gambling with the lives of other people as the "stakes." 15. "Safety First, Last and Always." |