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Show WE MUST REDUCE AUTO ACCIDENTS There are but three causes for our disgraceful automobile accident acci-dent record carelessness, incompetence incompe-tence and lax enforcement of the traffic law's. It is time for the American public to admit that the accident problem has reached a point where it is a menace to the life and property prop-erty of every person and that the "prevention" methods of the past have been failures. The much lauded solution by compulsory insurance in-surance was found to increase the accident rate rather than decrease it. Insurance can only indemnify. It can never prevent. It it the minor mi-nor phase of the accident problem not the crux. In most communities, traffic laws are inadequate to meet modern mod-ern conditions. Drivers are licensed licens-ed wholesale, usually without the tests to determine their mental and physical fitness.The. irrespons ible and the reckless crowd the highways. America has not gained a highway safety conciousness. An insurance law, such as New York has adopted, which forces a motorist to prove financial responsibility respo-nsibility after he has ' caused an accident, or lose his license, places plac-es responsibility where it belongs, on the party at fault. We must rid ourselves of the reckless and ignorant and instill basic facts of safety in the mind of every driver and pedestrian using us-ing the highway . |