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Show Look! Listen! Liie! . "That crossing- in harmless," he thought. He had crossed it hundreds hun-dreds of times as a youngster as he walked to and from school. He had crossed hundreds of additional times as the driver of a delivery truck. He had watched scores of trains rumble over that crossing:. But on the day of the accident Illustrated here his familiarity wilii U10 luiiroad grade crossing was his death trap. A fast train roared into his small truck, tossed the motor through the air to crash again:;t a nearby hotel. The driver and hi:; helper were killed. The driver, a local resident, was thoroughly familiar with the crossing too familiar. The National Safety Council i:j conducting a special campaign to stop these accidents, which cvcv day delay an average of 33 trdn:; a total of 22 hours a damaiir; blow to the nation's war transportation transpor-tation effort. Driver carclecinesa is the cause of almost all graie crossing accidents. To help wi:i the war to save yourself and others needless suffering the Council says, 'x-e sure the tree;: is clear before you start to cix;-.'' |