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Show Sponsored by The Pleasant Grove Review in cooperation with the new car dealers advertising in our newspaper. 'You've Got the Right of Way' Most Famous Last Words Of Al! "Go right ahead," you've got the right of way." Whispered in your ear by the accident gremlin, these are the most famous last words of all. They generally precede many too many of all the serious traffic traf-fic accidents. And nearly 25 per cent of all accidents, say insur-ane insur-ane people, are aused by drivers who think they have the right of way but don't. Usually, the man who assumes he has the right of way is in a hurry full of that impatience that makes us bull our way thru to save a few seconds. Or to think we save a few seconds. Actually, "haste makes waste," is a proverb pro-verb doubly applicable to driving it wastes both lives and time. It's been proved, too. A famous racing driver tried it not long-ago. long-ago. He made two 10-mile drives through city traffic the first at the greatest possible speed, pushing push-ing lights, bending and breaking most traffic laws the second over the same route, but driving carefully care-fully and observing all laws and the rules of courtesy. Yet his "fast" trip saved less than 30 seconds over the one in which he observed all the laws! Even if you saved ten times that by taking chances in bulling through against both law and courtesy it just wouldn't be worth it. You'd be risking life and limb yours and those of others for next to nothing. The right of way does you no good if the other driver doesn't know you have it! |
