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Show U Accident Preventin I Instructions eonrrrnlnc the ' Notional Accident rremtlon Drive," which v. Ill hrgln Ociober 18 at 12.01 . m. and will ios October Si, have been lssm-d to employes by Superintendent B A. Campbell Camp-bell of the Salt Lake division of th. ( Southern Pacific company. This drive will be conducted on a'l railroads under fed' ral control. Statistics show that during the fir3t j ilil ,-ix months 01 i ri r is people wen killed, 81 injured and 233 automobiles damaged I or destroyed In grade crossing- accidents Oil Southern Pilule rllroad Nearly nil of these accidents were caused b care-w care-w s6Trr on the part of automobile driv ers or, in other words, of the 233 acci- ! dents, ill trle,i to beat train at the froaslnp: 50 ran Into train Instead of train Into them: 19 ran Into and broke down crossing fates lowered to protoM I them from passing trains: three r.m down and Injured .-lousing flagmen and 30 dialled on tlx tra 1. passenger iraln mo- ing at maximum permissible speed on unrestricted track, rovers half mile in three-fifth of mil)- I ute and obstructs a highway only nho'it I seven seconds. Indicating necessity for driven of automobiles to stop, look and listen before attempting to cross the track of a railroad at grade. As it on' requires about seven seconds lor a pass-engtr pass-engtr train to clear crosslnp. manv of these accidents would have been avoldod if they had but waited this brief period. During first six months of year Itll there was a net decrease in number of I casualties on all railroads under federal -ntrol of 21.3!n rompnrod with the flrt fix months of car 1 0 1 These casual -ties Include employes and public. While a very substantial reduction has been effected in the number of accidents, the number still remaining is so large as to justify every effort toward a further reduction re-duction The Salt Lake division of the South rn Taclflc railroad held remarkable showing of 1000 per cent In the Xo Accident Week" drive held some time ago, .nd officers and employee are determined to again hold that position. The "Safety First" movement has been a godsend In reducing Iosm of life and limb and it is a movement that bhould not be confined to railroads and their employes alone but to automobile and other vehicle drivers, pedestrians, factories, fac-tories, in faf t should be practiced through every walk In life Accidents cannot be prevented unles-each unles-each Individual puis forth this or liOi utmost care, and It Is with this thought In mind that prompted the Inauguration of "National Railroad Accident Prevention Preven-tion Drive," and tho t inted States railroad rail-road administration expects to receive ( hearty co-operation of all citizens |
