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Show 1-MINUTE SAFETY TALKS By Don Herold We'll drive modorately, and if we VJ an accident; Mrm ,i will be tpL How to Have More Trivial Accident If we are going to have automobile accidents, let s have little ones. It is not such a serious matter when we dent a fender. What we don't want to dent is a skull. How shall we select for ourselves the smaller or more insignificant or skin-deep or grade "C" accidents? I have a book in my lap, compiled by The Travelers Insurance Company on last year's smashes and crashes. It tells us which kind of accidents are the deadliest. Let's get a line on 'em and avoid THAT kind. About the surest way to cinch your death in an automobile accident is to mix in a little alcohol. With an intoxicated intoxi-cated driver (you or somebody else) at the wheel, your chance of death is greater than with a sober man at the wheel. I mean if you take 1,000 drunk accidents and 1,000 sober accidents acci-dents there'll be more deaths in the drunk accidents. Even an intoxicated pedestrian has ; a better chance of being killed than . sober pedestrian per accident. There has been a lot of loose tall about the safety of driving fast. A lot of people think that it is all riRln to drive fast if they drive "careful" But the figures show that the rate o( I death per accident which involves ! exceeding the speed limit is much j worse than the avernpe death rale foi all accidents due to improper drivini ! practices. Places, too, have a lot to do with the violence of your accident. The rate of death per accident on highways and at rural intersections is more than 200 per cent greater than on cit streets. ; Time plays a part, also. The death rate per accident after dark is about 60 per cent worse than during daylight. Mav all your accidents be little ones, and they're more apt to be little il you know about and avoid these deadlier spots and practices. |