Show death begins at 40 title safety booklet too much S speed p eed and too little courtesy blamed for heavy mortality deaths in automobile accidents for 1937 reports the travelers news bureau of hartford conn HARTFORD CONN feb 24 basic reasons for americas shameful automobile accident record in C were too much speed and too little courtesy according to a new booklet entitled death begins at 40 just issued by the travelers insurance company the booklet presents a complete analysis of last years traffic accidents ci based on official figures from the 48 states there is no intention in the booklet according to the editors to advocate 40 miles an hour or any other fixed speed as a top limit to quote there are times as in heavy traffic or heavy fog when 30 miles an hour is suicidal other times when 50 miles an hour seems reasonable every driver should know however that if he does have an accident it is more likely to mean death if he is going fast many of the features in the booklet have been prepared especially ally to show what happens in the higher brackets of speed it is pointed out for instance that a car is four times harder to stop at 50 miles an hour than it is at 25 95 and nine times harder to stop at 75 miles an hour than at 25 A new word turn ability has been coined to express another speed factor the drivers turn ability the booklet shows decreases rapidly as his speed increases thus he can make only one fourth as sharp a turn at 50 miles an hour as he could make at 25 and only one ninth as sharp a turn at 75 as at 25 another set of figures shows that if you have an accident while driving under forty miles an hour there is only one chance in 44 that somebody will be killed but if your accident comes while you are traveling faster than forty there is one chance in 19 that somebody will be killed while the folly of high speed provides the main theme of the booklet there is a secondary theme which runs consistently through the issue it is the need for courtesy on the highway after analyzing reports of 40 fatalities and injuries in traffic accidents last year the companas comp anys statisticians point to these interesting and known facts about accidents exceeding the speed limit was responsible for 37 per cent of the deaths and 25 per cent of the injuries more than 94 per cent of the drivers involved in fatal accidents were male and less than 6 per cent female it does not necessarily follow that women are safer drivers than men it is pointed jointed out because adequate data on the relative exposure are lacking ninety seven per cent of drivers involved in fatal accidents had had one or more years driving experience more than 78 per cent of all fatal accidents occurred when the road surface was dry eighty three per cent of all f fatal atal accidents occurred in clear weather more persons were killed on turn to page 13 column ahrer DEATH BEGINS AT FORTY continued from page 1 sunday than on any other day the heaviest injury toll came on saturday more persons were killed between seven and eight 0 clock in the evening than at any other hour fatalities increased last ast year in in every age group except that from five to fourteen years of age in the last fifteen years persons have teen been killed in the U US S by automobiles this is almost double the number of american soldiers killed in action or died of wounds in all the wars this country has engaged in since its birth the insurance company will distribute two million dililon copies of the booklet this year in the interest of street and highway safety single copies of the booklet or quantities may be obtained gratis by writing the company or 0 r any of its agents of federal range land has been upheld by the federal courts in the first criminal case involving trespass on the public domain secretary harold L ickes today was advised by F R carpenter director of the division of grazing I 1 tried before judge T D johnson in the federal district court at salt lake city utah the case I 1 i involved charges of trespassing tres passing i i filed by the division of grazing against sandall findley judge johnson imposed a fine and severely reprimanded findley for his failure to comply with the rules and regulations governing grazing districts i during the course of the pr pro 0 1 ce edings judge johnson was forced to issue a bench warrant to secure finkleys Find leys appearance in court and later ordered attachment and sale of the cattle if necessary to insure payment of the fine imposed pleading guilty to the charge findley was alleged to have grazed approximately cattle on the federal range without license in disregard of grazing regulations records in case I 1 findley applied for a license to graze head of cattle in 1936 which application was granted 1 payment on this licenser licens ewas was never received however and therefore ei the license was not issued hel he failed to make application for grazing privileges in the spring spring of of 1937 in august 1937 it was discovered that findley had stock grazing on the federal range and a trespass notice was transmitted to him it was ascertained that he had made no effort to remo remove the stock or to apply for a license licensed 1 and investigation by the division of grazing developed that he was grazing cattle and 2 horses on the tropic unit of utah grazing district no 5 with 65 head of the livestock trailing to utah grazing district no 4 the case was referred to the 1 division of investigation Unit united eoll states department of the interior on october 5 and after thorough tho thorough investigation the matter was turned over to the united states attorney trial and conviction resul resulted tedon on february |