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Show poi im " """ ' .1 ,. ,,. , Don't Gamble With Your Life, Drive Slowly and Safely During Winter islators interested merely in forbidding; for-bidding; something you're playing play-ing "road roulette," with your life as the bet. Safety limits are set by engineers who know how much speed a given road or curve can safely take. Other players of "road roulette:" the driver who drives too fast for his headlights; the sport who squeezes through changing traffic signals; the driver who parks and gets out of his car on the traffic side; the exhibitionist who covers most of his windshield with stickers stick-ers showing where he's been so that he can't see Where's he's going; go-ing; and the driver who "just takes it for granted" that his car is in safe operating condition never nev-er thinking of consulting the experts, ex-perts, the trained service men who will properly maintain his car. They're all playing "road roulette." roul-ette." Make sure you're not in the game and live longer. Perhaps a handful of Americans have been killed gambling at the dangerous Russian Roulette that game in which you put a single cartridge in a revolver, spin the cylinder, aim at your temple and pull the trigger, betting your life that the bullet will not be in position pos-ition to fire. But insurance statistics . reveal that more than 25,090 Americans died last year and more than a quarter of a million were injured taking bigger gambles with their driving; exceeding safe speed limits, lim-its, driving or passing on the wrong side, cutting in, passing on curves and hills, improper signalling sig-nalling or none at all, driving off the roadway, or just plain driving recklessly. "Road Roulette" with human lives as the stakes you might call such insane carelessness. When you assume, for example that speed limits are set by leg- |