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Show Persons Who Drive Take Good Care of Themselves Persons who drive automobiles take better care of themselves while walking walk-ing than do those who do not drive cars, according to recent research work looking into the causes of traffic accidents. It is said that, few motor-car drivers are caught off their guard when walking. walk-ing. The records show that the majority ma-jority of accidents to pedestrians involve in-volve persons who have had no experience experi-ence In handling cars. The reasons for this are that In motoring mo-toring the driver gets a perfect picture pic-ture of what he faces as a pedestrian, and when he walks he conducts himself him-self accordingly. He walks in a confident con-fident manner, and when ' he crosses the streets at Intersections he makes allowances for the inability of the traffic officers to look out for everyone. He knows the approximate distance In which a car can stop. He Is able to observe whether the drivers are keeping keep-ing their eyes on the road or not He Is trained to take no chances and watch signals, so that from his general gen-eral experience as a driver he is trained automatically as a pedestrian. It would appear that the moral from this is that every person should learn to drive a car at the earliest possible moment. |