| Show rr a Acoss ft M ideas from other editors From the Warren Record War War- renton North Carolina We were asked a 8 few tew days day ago why we didn't write an editorial JumpIng Jump Jump- Ing lag on the Highway Patrol and other officers to top stop speeding on onO O our OJ J highways highway We told the friend that the reason that speeding hat has hatnot not not been stopped topped was Wal because our people dont don't want It stopped Furthermore one will well find a large number of ot I people who In spite Spite of i statistics and reason to the the contrary still Insist that speed i lag Ing 1 Is not the maIn cause of the shameful slaughter laughter on our highways high high- ways 1 That people dont don't want speeding topped stopped largely because It will I top stop their own speeding Is borne lout out by the lack of cooperation members bf f the tho Highway Patrol receive from the general public I This Is ja not only borne out by the I I fight made In the last O General eral Assembly As As- embly upon the whammy and the difficulty of obtaining convictions in the tho court but by the general genera attitude of the public regarding the whammy one ono of the Highway Patrols Patrol's most effective weapons It Is not unusual cars and trucks on our teeming highways with blinking bUnking lights sometimes sounding horns borns warning motorIsts motor that a highway patrol car or whammy Is around the next corner or r over the next MIL bill If U this does not show a sympathy for speed speed- ers ere rs and a tack lack of ot understanding ot of f the dangers of high speed we hardly know what would show thaw It We will admit that a modern car ar lacing at 70 miles an hour may be under better control than was the old Model T at 40 but this does not remove the fact that such uch car colliding with another running at 50 SO within the speed limit has a total Impact of miles mlle an hour houri and that when two tons ons of steel collide at rn mileson miles es esan an on hour the Impact Is le something terrific Unfortunately such headon head head- on collisions are not too rare Few people stop to think that an automobile traveling at 60 80 rn miles es esan an hour Is going at the rate of 88 feet teet a 11 second No reaction Is la fast enough to suddenly check this thie speed and If lilt It were the momentum would cause serious Injury to the passengers Cats dogs opossums and hens dally daily meet their death on OD highways because they dash Into Intel the path of motorists who unwillingly unwell kill them Usually the motorist motor 1st knows a second or more before he strikes such animal or fowl that he Is going to do so so but Is powerless to prevent the collision The same would hold true should a child chad dart Into the tho highway or should other othet emergency arise |
