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Show Nation's Expressways Safer Than Two Lane Highways and following too closely behind be-hind other vehicles." He re-mindded re-mindded motorists that there should be an interval between cars of one car length for every ten miles of speed. This means that at 60 miles per hour, for example, there should be a distance of six car lengths between be-tween vehicles. There's no doubt about it, the statistics are there to prove it. The nation's expresways are much safer than the ordinary two lane highways. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, in spite of almost unlimited unlimit-ed visibility, separated traffic and other advantages, accidents acci-dents continue to happen on what seem to be foolproof thoroughfares. thor-oughfares. The main problem is motorists who don't think. This is the conclusion of Fred Montmorency, Mont-morency, President of the Utah Safety Council. "For instance," Montmorency Montmoren-cy said "few drivers going past an interchange ever get over into the left lane marked 'thru traffic'. Most stay in the right lane, thus risking being involved invol-ved in an accident with a car entering the highway from an entrance ramp on the right." Montmorency stated that most of these motorists are not intentionally in-tentionally breaking the law, they just don't pay attention to signs. Another problem is not watching for exit lanes. Montmorency Mont-morency said that often a driver dri-ver will be passing another vehicle, ve-hicle, suddently he sees his exit looming just ahead and cuts sharply in front of another car to reach the ramp. Such maneuvers, ma-neuvers, which frequently cause accidents, could be avoided avoid-ed by the driver knowing approximately ap-proximately where his exit is and being ready for it when it appears. "Motorists with disabled cars who do not pull completely complete-ly off the road cause numerous other crashes," Montmorency added. All expressways provide emergency lanes, just to the right of the highway, for cars with flat tires or mechanical difficulties. Too often, though, motorists will only pull half way off the road to stop. This act can cause problems, especially espec-ially with drivers of oncoming cars. Many of whom have had their concentration partially dulled by miles of seemingly hazardless driving. "Other frequent fre-quent causes of crashes," Mon-tmorenc Mon-tmorenc ysaid, "are making illegal il-legal U-turns across the median |