Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-04 | Page 14 | Put Your Gears in Low before You Go!

I PUT YOUR GEARS IN LOW BEFORE YOU GQ!K i - 1 1907 Persons Are Killed in Year By Crossing Accidents I ' H i (By XEA Service) H 'ml NEW YORK, June 3. Cross cross- H i'Sff ings cautiously! I flBKa Thai the .slogan adopted for t lir I Careful Crossing Campaign, which began June 1 and ends Septembi f 8 I During that period the American Fallwav association wants to educate I iho public to think and act SAJFETl L f FIRST. Backing the campaign are '. b t)ie United States Automobile Chani- f 0o- of Commerce, the National High- H iLttl WV Traffic association, the National Safety Council, and numerous other i organizations. i Tremendous Increases In the num- i her of fatal accidents at railroad , . rossinge, In most of which automn-HJ automn-HJ faTS biles wero Involved, brought about the campaign of education. , ACCIDENTS INOREAS1 Since 1890, statisticians uf the I American Railway association point out, the population of the country has increased 08 pc-i cent. whilej crossing a icdents have Increased 846 1 I'll ,n"r cent lri fatalities UIul C5- pcr ent in injuries! ' The United States Bureau f Stand-HL Stand-HL , ards has not jet announced the fig- B ' ures for 1921 But in 1920 automo biles were Involved in T6 per cent of I all crossing accidents. Persons killed death resulting in IN houi I otaled H$ 1731. while 5077 were injured 110 mKj of the latter dying subsequently. HSlf -Hero are the tit, ures for automo- bile accidents at crossings: I Accidents. Killed. Injured ' 1918 .... 2 270 1131 3109; HiffotK S1 2571 123J :"',s KH?H 1930 .. .. 3012 12T8 30771 Railroads are concentrating on ! public education because they ue- clare total elimination o crossings js impossible, i PREVENTIYi: WORK COSTLY. , There are 251 939 highway cross-ings cross-ings In the country. Of this num-ber num-ber only 399 were eliminated in one M ear. Each elimination cost S50,00 1 making tho cost of eliminating ail crossings $12,500,000,000 ' The association pledges co-opera-1 tion by tho railroads in keeping crossings In good condition fori 1 travel, giving reasonable n..tice of I ihe existence of crossings, and see- H ' ing to it that flagmen dp their fullj H. duty in warning of the approach ol! trains. HKiGhT! The va,uc of safety first cam- I palgns is ehowm, railroad officials I say, by the reduction In deaths from 1 accident among employes from 436-1 in 1907 to 2578 in 1920. j Safoty engineers urge automobile drivers to form the habit of eh ting I gears into low speed at ail crossings I This practice causes drivers in - j I stlnctively to pause at crossings, and 1 also reduces to a minimum tho risk of stalling on the tracks. We I