Show save your vision week emphasizes highway safety february 23 to february 29 is the ninth annual save your vision week sponsored by the national association of optometrists this week civic club speakers are arc stressing the value of effectual eyesight and especially thay are telling the public what seeing has to do with safety the state associations of optometrists of many states have made investigations as has the safety council of the national association the figures are illuminating it was found that only about 25 per cent of automobile accidents can be attributed to speeding and recklessness 8 per cent may be classed as unavoidable due to weather conditions and bad roads 5 per cent to insufficient knowledge of driving and traffic rules 10 per cent to drivers loss of self control in an emergency and 2 per cent to defective mechanism ani sm that leaves the high percentage of half of all accidents accident with eyes as a contributing factor 50 per cent seems a big percentage of accidents due to eyes but the percentage has been maintained other later investigations have shown the same results the association makes the following statement the man who tells the judge 1 I see pro probably acabi ing he may be unable le to see quickly anything coming from the side aide one eye may suspend in moments of stress if both eyes had bad good vision this habit of suspending might not be troublesome but few people have two really good eyes the real menace to safety from the eyes is because so many drivers have ineffectual vision and do not realize it unless acute disi comfort has brought the fact to mind the driver naturally thinks that he has as good vision as other drivers there has been no comparison of vision to warn that he is dangerous when at the wheel of a car As a part of the car safety campaign now being waged optometrists are using this week to acquaint the public with the hazzards governor henry H blood makes the following statement utah has a statute which prescribes that operators of motor vehicles shall be licensed provisions of that law designated designate certain minimum requirements as to the ability of the driver to see adequate enforcement of this statute will contribute to the safety not only of the driver of the automobile and the occupants of his car but to that chat of other persons using the highways in vehicles or on foot if save your i vision week beginning february 23 and sponsored by the american association should accomplish com nothing more chanto than to direct public attention to the possibility lity of saving human life and limb through proper compliance with this one statute observance of the week would be well worth while there are however many other truths developed by scientific study of vision which will tend to promote public health and to encourage the correction of that form of physical disability known as imperfect vision I 1 therefore invite intelligent attention and study to this subject during the period mentioned through the cooperation of all those interested in the physical development of utah citizenship |