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Show WINTER DRIVERS NEED MORE TIME Reduce Spcd for Safety in Slippery Weather, Auto Club Warns. Safe winter driving Ileitis with a readjustment of one's schedule to allow al-low more time for travel between tlio home nnd olllee, store, shop, or plant, according to Matthew Morse, secretary sec-retary of the Automobile Cluh of Missouri. "The allowance of an extra ex-tra live, ten or lift eon tninutes, depending de-pending upon the distance one has to travel, may mean a difference much more significant than that denoted merely by the time," says Morse. Cause of Accidents. "It Is Impossible to tell how many accidents may he traced to the individual's in-dividual's failure to adjust his driving driv-ing schedule to winter, wheu so many things conspire against ordinarily speedy motor travel. It is not to be doubted that the number would be Impressively large were It possible to compute. "'Too fast for conditions,' Is an accident ac-cident cause that is most outstanding iu winter, even though, on the whole, cold weather driving is slower. It Is well to remember that 'conditions' are radically different. Streets are slippery slip-pery and the weather is cold, making handling of the car more difficult, and the temptation of pedestrians is to rusl) ahead, regardless of tralllc. These and many other factors conspire con-spire against safety. Remedy Is More Time. "The remedy for these conditions, plainly, is to take more time. If the motorist usually allows ten minutes for his morning run to the otlice, why not make It fifteen for winter? No better way to spend five minutes can be devised. If this allowance is made, there will be no driving so fast that a sudden stop may mean a fatal skid. It will provide time to let the reckless driver pass. It will be adequate for more caution in congestion, permitting one to drive farther behind the next car, which will make stopping possible possi-ble in case an emergency arises. "Such a readjustment of one's early morning routine is not difficult, and It will hear fiuit in the form of a greater traffic safety." |