Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-07-22 | Page 26 | Trolleys and Motors Crash

TROLLEYS AND MOTORS CRASH Play Safe Is Warning To Auto Owners In Cities BY BT EDWIN GREIr President Grace Greer of Auto Auto- Automotive Auto motive Engineering Eoe Cht o Accidents In which h automobiles figure with trolley cars cira Ore not the most uncommon on the list Hat and there ire are several little points point that If H followed by the onto auto driver will 1 lessen such uch o accidents Ono of nf the principal things to keep In mInd Is that a a trolley car runs run on oi tracks racks dad consequently cannot ch change Its course so o that It Is up to the motor car pilot to watch out trolleys rather th r than for tor or tho the motormen to watch out tor for automobiles ory E day doy we w see tee aUtomobiles closely following street tre t Cars cirs on J the he h rails This i is a 1 ery ery dangerous pra for tor the th auto has ha no nD means of ot knowing what who l start the motorman may m y jam m on Ills brakes Sod ond In such a 0 c SO o It Is almost lie po im-po possible to avoid a collision Then there Is 1 the tile auto er who falls to take talce into consideration con tho the fact that troll trolley trolly y care cars aro likely to tarn tun off at corners where hore tracks Inter Inter- interseCt Intersect se sect t and thus at nt times time the motor motor- motorist 1st 1st finds himself jammed t bt-t cen the trolley and the tho curb Als Also the driver or en tails falls to figure when II a alree street ear car turns away n dy from film on OD A a cun curie cune e the thO lh rear real end Is bound to saing s lne out several ver l feet beyond the tracks To bl be b sate ate i II driver hol always al- al way 1 ways waye stop his auto at least 12 f feet et behind a standing standing- street car and andin andin In no ease caso should he h take t k danger danger- dangerous dangerous dangerous ous chances chancel crowding In bet weena between behnen a trolley and the curb ALo Abo drivers driven driver ers en er should never attempt It tl to t pass pMs a 0 street car moving In jn the th lams Sams dl- dl di direction section on the left ert side elde I dl-I oo 00