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Show TAKES 10 TIMES LONGER TO ; STOP TRAIN THAN AUTO CHICAGO What is the difference in time in stopping the average train running forty miles an hour and halting halt-ing a motor car traveling at the same speed ? How much is the difference in feet? Here are the answers as worked out by the safety bureau of the Baby Ruth Candy company in a report recently re-cently made public here by Otto Y. Schnering president, and nationally known safety authority. "A train running forty miles an houreoes fifty-nine feet in one second and cannot be halted in less than 1,-320 1,-320 feet," the report states. "The minimum time required by the engineer en-gineer to stop if 22.3 seconds. "A motor car running forty miles an hour can be stopped in ninety-three ninety-three feet or in approximately two seconds of time. "Without any consideration of right of way or law, these figures definitely definite-ly answer the question of which should stop, look and listen at rail-rad rail-rad crossings, the train or the automobile." auto-mobile." ! Forty-seven per cent of the auto- mobile accidents at railroad crossings i result from motor cars trying to cross j directly in front of approaching : trains, the report shows. Twenty- seven per cent of the mishaps resulted from autos running into trains." I 1 |