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Show Work For Safety The traffic phase of automobile fatalities fa-talities is that most accidents are unnecessary. un-necessary. Yet every year thousands of people pay with their lives for carelessness, rcklessness and incompetence of drivers. driv-ers. Compulsory insurance can never off set this irreparable loss. At its best it can only inremnify. It begins at the wi-ons; end of the problem. What is needed is a safety consciousness conscious-ness on the part of the public and rigid enforcement of adequate driving laws. In certain communities safety lessons have been given in schools, with the result that accidents tj children chil-dren appreciably decreased. Tests have shown that the accident rate will drop to a minimum when tratfic laws are enforced and offenders punished. pun-ished. In many localities the traffic codes are out-worn and inadequate, having gone unrevised since the time when an automobile was something of a curiosity. Education and law enforcement have helped the railroads lower accidents and helped in fighting fires and disease. di-sease. Applied to the automobile accident ac-cident problem they would give quick and gratifying results. |