| Show i i Automobile Accidents 1 a period of ot days day three distressing dig dis digI I v. automobile accidents have ha occurred I in Salt SnIt Lake A record o of the past si six months would show a number discouraging of them I The Tho circumstances surrounding tho the various mishaps differ greatly except as t to tho cause which upon I questioning tho automobilists figuring in n the several sev IC I era eral misadventures J is found to bo be singularly sing identical iden idon- I in each cach case It rims runa something like this thi I The automobile was running very slowly far within the legal limit and tho the unfortunate victim suddenly sud sud- denly deuly stricken with an incurable desire to throw himself under tho the wheels did so despite the efforts of the perfectly cool and self possessed driver to avoid him Mm by jockeying his machine from one si side e eI I of the tile rond road to the other I It t is obvious that some soma method methol must be found I of or preventing many similar occurrences during the I cason of good roads and riding joy-riding weather that t t has just begun How flow shall it be b done 1 It is most discouraging to an fin automobilist to find n. n pedestrian I trian fiendishly determined to butt b his f head against the machine with a curiosity to know perhaps I whether the new models will endure the tho impact as aswell aswell well as nit time tIle old I either cither for or business or pleasure I has lias come to sta stay Like aviation it has its hazards I hut but nt most of them unfortunately are assumed by br the th- innocent bystander who is made the chief figure t in ill a risk with which he has haJ nothing to do Social economists that regard as ns waste the destruction of human life and the consequent removal nl of a 0 constructive eon con on- on ud c unit from the lh theatre tre of c earthly a affairs airs can find in this problem something to exhaust its energy find nid it its ingenuity The streets belong lelong to the people theoretically an and in the ordinary course of events whatever menaces them would be bc removed I Wo- Wo cannot devise ise any means of getting gettin rid of the I automobilist and wd there appears no method by hy which J we vc can COll eliminate accidents either b by traffic regulations regu I lations or 01 excoriation o of the spee speed maniac It Jt is well understood that machinery which requires re rc- re- re I quires quire an experienced control in order to control its destructive energies should be Ilc placed in the hands of those who know what to do and how to do it I The axiom must be added that automobiles which are arc as as dangerous as shotguns and bowie Lowie knives shall shaH be driven only bv lW those competent to mans manage c them The nIle stories invariably told toM b by those who I If f figure Jure in accidents would woul indicate that the sort of automobile driver dri Salt Lake needs is the thc sort that when hen pur pursued b by a pedestrian who exhibits exhibit a frenzy to get get gel under the tho wheels is able either cither to dodge oJ e and andI anda I a avoid aoi oid l the tin collision or to turn the machine and antI speed I rapidly in the other direction The driver may learn earn hi itt time perhaps to di discern in the eye of the thc approaching individual that peculiar li light ht that I proves his in insane an fondness f for or losin losing a limb or two juicier l a a. machine whereupon by sending the tIle automobile automobile auto auto- mobile up the nearest t telegraph pole or lofty tree accidents c can m be 10 avoided a In the thc meantime however ver while science is searching for or the cause of this latest mania and the remedy for it dri drivers ers of automobiles mi might ht ponder upon their responsibilities Their allxie anxiety to pass pMS from one given giten point to another by touch touching ns only the high places in the intervening space should surrender to the thought that human life is the pedestrians pedestrian's greatest asset The driver dri who grows s ro excited when he approaches a group of children and through excess of nervousness strikes one of them should confine confino himself to something no more racking nerve than tha ii wheeling a perambulator U Ju |
