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Show Driving RuBes Outlined For Winter Motorists Baby your buggy through weather like this for it will be , longer than you think before you get a new one, Mr. Ronald J. I Dyches. Vice-President, Utah Safety Council, advised motorists today as light snow blanketed a considerable area of the State of Utah Even if you don't consider your car vital to this country's bright post-war future, said Mr. Dyches, you may smash into someone who is. Traffic accidents are a tremendous, tremen-dous, avoidable, digraceful waste at all times, Mr. Duches said, and more than ever at a time like this, when every traffic accident j may remove another scarce auto-I auto-I mobile from the country's dwindling dwind-ling supply of essential transportation. transpor-tation. He gave a brief check list for motorists intending to drive when snow and ice weather becomes be-comes more severe, and suggested suggest-ed that motorists who couldn't check all five items leave their cars in their garages: Do your brakes grip evenly? Are your tire chains ready to put on? Are your lights aligned and do they work on the low beam? Docs your motor have sufficient suffic-ient anti-freeze? Answering "Yes" to all five doesn't end the safe driver's responsibility, re-sponsibility, Mr. Dyches said. He must still remember to reduce speed in bad weather, watch for pedestrians and children on sleds, leave plenty of space between be-tween himself and the car ahead, and go slow on icy curves. |