Show NIGHT pedestrian ACCIDENTS GROWING walking across the street or ai long iong a rural highway always a hazard when there is pres ant lit be becomes cornea much more dangerous atter after tile the hours ot of lusk and darkness fatalities among pe pedestrian destria at night are playing an increasingly iorge part lit in gw gwillin ellin the toll ot of night traffic deaths as a whole these facts are arc supported by surveys made lu in various paris ot of the united states stales the utah motorist Alot orist association ie leports ports with the comment that ono one ot of uie the major attacks on the problem ot of night traffic fic accidents yearly growing in bumber must be in tile tho diorec direction tion of pie preventing venting pedestrian deaths one of 0 the surveys revealed t that hat dark darkness ness increases the pedestrian hazard by as mulch much as 63 per cent as compared with daytime it was also found that the greatest number ber of 0 deaths were centered in two age groups darkness almost doubles the danger of death for pedestrians 1 aged 15 to 39 years and almost triples the risk lor for those 40 to 65 years old the heavy toll that night accidents take among tile the older pedestrians was revealed by a further study which established the fact that 82 per cent of fatalities among pedestrians over 50 years old accor during the periods of dusk or darkness an obvious conclusion the report said is that both motorists and pedestrians tail fall to give proper consideration to night traffic conditions dit ions motorists generally fall fail to blacken lac kea speed sufficiently to compensate for reduced ability to seo see learly clearly pedestrians place too much faith in the ability of motorists to observe them motorists should not drive at at 1 night at a speed greater than will permit them to stop in the clearly visible distance ahead pedestrians should realize that motorists may not see them unless they wear or carry something white and even then they should be on the alert to step out of the path of approaching traffic tiaC fic on highways they should walk on the left facing daeing traffic as required by law |