Show Highway signs are for the Safety of the motorist MOTORISTS LITERALLY are driving themselves to OFTEN THEY'RE traffic and signals which designed for their Jack C. head of the National Safety Council's Signs Of Life asserted EMPHASIZED that the sole purpose of traffic pavement markings and other devices is to state the to warn of hazards and to give assistance and protection to all street and highway in CITED L One out of 10 drivers in fatal traffic accident to keep to the of the center One OUt of 7 ignores stop or warning passes improperly or does not have f. Three out of 10 drivers in fatal traffic accidents exceed speed limits or safe SAID these and other facts on auto including those involving cars and arc contained in the annual report on the Signs of Life program by the Council's railroad-highway traffic safety HE to get killed or hurt because too often they don't ignore or don't understand traffic signals and pavement He said the Signs of Life program has been especially valuable in preventing highway-rail crossing KIM BY the better crossing protection and improved enforcement of traffic laws that and cooperation from of course have combined to pull down the number of motor vehicle-train he WHAT ARK THE CAUSES of highway-rail COMING UP TO THE CROSSING too fast to being too familiar with a railroad speeding at starting up too soon after a train has ignoring warning signs and and driving after URGED MOTORISTS to learn the six-basic traffic signs to prevent traffic accidents of all L Round yellow with blaek or means highway-railroad intersection the traditional symbol at highway-mil is white with irk Octagon red with white means come a full stop anil he sun the way is clear before Replaces older yellow sign with black Triangle yellow with letters reading Right of Means what it says slow down at Stop If Diamond yellow with black lettering or Warns of dangerous or unusual conditions ahead side hill or school Rectangle white with black or other colored States the such as speed parking and turning and passing movement |