| Show To Seek Goal I In Safe Driving I The saving of ot lives and prevention prevention prevention pre pre- of at at least injuries this year is the g goal al of at more than newspapers throughout t the U United n nit i t e d States that have Joined in a n to coast-to- coast campaign to halt the tho mounting horror of ot motor vehicle accidents on Americas America's streets and highways Confronted by a So staggering total of more than traffic dead with other men women and children children children chil chil- dren injured many of ot them crippled for tor life Ufe in a n mere 52 years of reckless motoring the press of the nation has adopted a common common program to attack attack- this annual national calamity on three fronts 1 1 Intensive I.-Intensive education of drivers 2 Intensive 2 education of pedestrians 3 Intensive Intensive insistence upon strict enforcement of ot traffic laws Assisting this and the other newspapers newspapers p pers rs in presenting the facts about traffic accidents and how they can be prevented prevented prevented pre pre- vented will be the famed accident prevention prevention prevention pre pre- department of ot the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies which first introduced safe driver education education tion to the high schools wrote I and the rust textbook on that subject and maintains starts staffs of safety specialists in New York Chicago and and ban Francisco to study constantly the I trends of traffic conditions on a countrywide countrywide coun- coun basis traffic fatalities by and personal injuries by this year is a real possibility said Thomas ThomasN N fi Boate acting manager of that nationally nationally na- na recognised ed safety organization It wul take the lull fun and united co cooperation cooperation cooperation co- co operation of ot the press of state and andI municipal officials of safety organizations I lons and of the people We can count counton on the first three The public which has hasI I mosli at stake is the unKnown quantity if they read and heed this campaign I will l be a success if they dont don't it will I IlaU fall i an That should be a terrifying prospect to every man woman and child in the I country when you remember that if It the toll Keeps Increasing at us its present rate lit it will not be long before every person in m the country must steel himself or herself to the fact that sooner or later they will be hit by an automobile hit automobile hit hard bard enough to DC ne either injured or killed It has been 10 years since we had less than persons injured In traffic accidents in any anyone one year It only took u us 52 years to pile up the he horrible toll of traffic dead but the second million may well be reached in half hat that time tune at the rate w we wp are going As a starting point toward the goal of far fewer accidents what is needed most is Immediate state and local action against moron drivers and unsafe driving driving driving ing habits of ot normal Americans who now kill more than people every day or die themselves in the accidents they cause while violating traffic laws Last year more than persons were Injured by automobiles The vast majority majority ma- ma of these accidents were caused by carelessness carelessness a great many by calloused indifference to traffic laws Obviously fullest law observance and enforcement on the highways should become the immediate im tin- mediate objective of at all states and cities The newspapers' newspapers 1952 traffic safety campaign which has the full endorsement endorsement endorsement endorse endorse- ment of all of ot the state press and publishers publishers' publishers publishers' pub pub- lishers' lishers organizations will wUl seek to educate educate educate edu edu- cate both drivers and pedestrians in the causes of ot accidents The No 1 target will willae willbe be ae speeding drivers whose violations of laws cause caure half of ot the automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile deaths in a number of ot states All safety organizations are urging stringent action against speeders Another primary primary primary mary target will be drinking drivers who also kill kUl thousands of ot Americans every year and often escape punishment with wrist the fines ines that merely encourage similar violations ac acI according according ac- ac cording to Mr B Boate I |
