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Show Curing Accident Repeaters Automobile accident repeaters can be cured. That is the gist cf an article in Public Safety, by Edward Ed-ward L. Yardan, describing the results of a corrective system ' applied ap-plied last year by the Registrar of Mctor Vehicles in Massachusetts to 500 drivers selected as possessing possess-ing the worst accident records in :he commonwealth. Every one of these drivers had been involved in a number of accidents. acci-dents. One man, for instance, had injured several pedestrians by striking them with the right side of his car. Tests disclosed a weakness weak-ness in his right eye, which was corrected with glasses. Another driver had had his car rammed three times frcm the rear. Tests showed his brake reaction to be exceptionally fast and he was advised ad-vised to watch out for the car in the rear when making sudden stops. So it went with all 500. At the end of the test instruction period, per-iod, the 500 accident repeaters were shewed to drive again. Eight months later the Registrar assembled assembl-ed their records. The 500 had driven an aggregate of more than i 3,250,000 miles in that period. Not one of them had become involved 1 in a serious accident. Only three of them had had any accidents at I all. The facts speak for themselves. 1 Enforced eduoaticn can cure the groat bulk of the drivers who are today responsible for major and inline- accidents. In relation to the ; vas. savings in life and property , involved, the cost to states and cities w.uld be infinitesimal. Ev-Lry Ev-Lry moor vehicle department should be authorized by the legislature to aeecpt, as a consistent policy, some such corrective system as that ex-I ex-I eri.xented with in Massachusetts. T-riay, in rrost states, offending drivers are permitted to go out and r. p-.rt their errors. That is largely responsible fcr cur soaring death and accident toll. |