Show STAY ON THE SAFE SIDE it pays to be on the safe side so goes a familiar old slogan on streets and highways where paint or other markings are liberally displayed to clearly designate the safe side for automobiles this truth would seem difficult to ignore yet more than deaths and over injuries are caused each year by drivers who bake take chances on the wrong side of the road there is a growing tendency among drivers to disregard the life lines of the highways that is hard to understand because every motorist with sense elou enough C h to drive should know and obey the safety rule that solid lines must never be crossed last year 1600 more drivers lost their lives or caused the death of others by violating wrong side of the road rules passing at the crest of a hill on curves on the open highway at high speeds and on the streets of cities towns and villages than the victims of this illegal habit that were counted in 1948 in the past three years injuries from crossing the highway life lines increased about from froin in 1949 to last year nearly all headon head on collisions the worst crashes seen on the highways result from driving on the wrong side of the road about lives were lost in 1951 in multiple death traffic accidents causing five or more deaths each virtually all of which were headon head on collisions these avoidable tragedies comprised about one fourth of the nations catastrophes of all kinds that year after speeding and drinking and driving traveling velin Z on the wrong side of the road probably claims the greatest number of traffic accident victims each year it accounts for about one df every six fatalities and more than th anone lone of every seven injuries it is high time for the police and courts to remind motorists of the old fashioned slogan with which we began |