Show GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER excessive speed has been branded everywhere as killer no 1 on the highway it is only right therefore that drivers who violate speed laws that are established for the safety of everyone including themselves should be made the primary target of state and local enforcement authorities throughout the nation in their determined effort to save at least lives in traffic accidents in 1952 few persons will disagree with this decision speeding motorists have hung up the record of their own indictment and conviction where all may see it and shudder they are responsible for nearly half of the nations highway 4 deaths resulting from braf i fie violations and for one fourth to one third of the injuries which may exceed when the statistics are tabulated for the past year here is the price we paid for speed violations last year as close lyas the safety specialists and actuaries can judge it on the basis of available reports ia killed i injured this is a public outrage that cannot and must not be tolerated the only y immediate cure is stern law enforcement and that we must have if law enforcement is to be effective however it must have the unqualified support of the people themselves even when it strikes right home to you y o u penalties 1 too must be commensurate with the crime sti stiff ff fines for so called minor speed violations a years minimum suspension of driving privileges for more serious speed violations and permanent revocation of dri driving vinc t license for repeaters never forget as one safety specialist correctly expressed it the speeding motorist who takes another persons life is literally getting away with murder |