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Show Road Safety Every citizen, especially the automobile auto-mobile driver, should give serious consideration to the need for more caution on the public highways. The death toll mounts annually, .causing loss of valuable lives and untold svlTiTin". M'.:,h property is destroyed in the process. All be- . cause drivers refuse to obey a few simple rules as to the manner in Which they operate automobiles. Safe driving is not a matter of great intricacy. To regulate tha 'speed of the car so as to have it constantly within the management of the driver in case of emergency is net terribly difficult. To watch 'side-roads to ascertain if careless I drivers are about to enter without sufficient looking can be done. To exercise patience in order to save his cwn life would not be difficu't jif the driver ki-pt this fact in mind. The pity about the lnmis'nc 'number of wrecks is that very often of-ten refill, considerate drivers a' 6 jwif-A-ea by care'.ws, reckless drivers 'a man going around a curve on his own side cam be killed by a fool who is hugging the "inside" regardless of the right of way. A driver well over to the right of the road can be maimed and injured by a fool trying to pass another car, around a curve or near the brew of a hill. Drivers who violate simple rules of safety should be arrested, regardless regard-less of whether there is an accident or not. Drivers generally should practice courtesy, as most cf them do, such as dimming lights when approaching other cars in the night time. Signals indicating that the car is going to turn off the road are easy to make, and are due the driver of the car following' you. If you stop your car, get entirely clear off the pavement; if you leave two wheels on you make it Impossible for two cars meeting at the same place to pass safely. The only way to decrease the heavy toll of automobile accidents is to make drivers generally more 'careful. Safe drivers should have some way in which to report careless care-less driving on the highways, so that by punishing the heedless dri-! dri-! ver an example may be made to deter others from endangering human hu-man life. There are entirely too many accidents. Too many fine lives are being obliterated all for the sake cf a few minutes less time in traveling. Speed is not, necessarily, in itself dangerous. It becomes deadly when it coincides with some unusual event, or if some defect in the car or the road suddenly develops. Theiefre, to guard against such unforseen happenings a driver car., not speed too fast. Most people overestimate the time saved by running run-ning at 60 miles an hour as against 45, for example. If you make the "f impa ison. even on a comparatively compara-tively long run, you'll find that the time saved is rt enough for the increased rl-k cf accident and death assumed. |