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Show Pasting on Blind Turns Very Dangerous Practice Teasing on blind turns I That's too common a trait of the sverage motorist, motor-ist, according to the safety bureau of the Natlonul Automobile club. Making Mak-ing up time, delay In passing the ear alieaj until too late for such passing, recklessness, taking a chance, all thes factors enter Into the problem of hazard, i, ; A group of newspaper men set out to observe the other day a driver who was Just ahead of them and who sccmea to nave a habit of attempting to pans at the wrong moment. Time after time this driver would slow op on the stralght-away 6nly to speed and pass the cars aheud when he came to a turn. There wns something radically wrong with his driving complex, com-plex, lie might have Intended to be cnreful, but his Judgment brought him to grief. Most accidents are caused by Just such drivers, drivers who should not be allowed at the wheel of a motor tor, as they are a menace to the safety of others. The innocent victim Is usually the man swinging around a turn only to find a foolhardy pilot taking more than his share of the highway. A forfeiture of a driver's license, a few days In Jail, these are sentences that should be the reward of the man who takes a chonce when In taking tak-ing the chance he endangers the Uvei of others on the road. |