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forInformation on America,Washington,Connecticut.  \nVol.1,No.5  \nMarch,1952  \n# HOW ABOUT\n\nHIGHWAYTRAFFICACCIDENTS  \nDuring last Christmas acation,the nation's mil-lionth traffic victim died in Lakewood Hospital,Cleve-land,Ohio.  \nShe was Miss Elma Wischmeier,fifty-two years old,whom relatives and frends described as \"the mostcareful person in the world.\"  \nShe was struck down and run over at dusk,duringa snowstorm,by a six-wheel trailer truck as she wasattempting to reach the opposite side of Cleveland'sLorain Avenue at a regular pedestrian crossing.  \nIt's taken only 'fifty-two years*to reap this har-vest of one million human beings meeting violentdeaths as the result of traffic accidents.  \nMore and more cars are on the road.It will takeonly thirty additional years,as figured by the statisti-cians of the National Safety Council,till someoneelse becomes the nation's two millionth traffic vic-tim.  \nSafety on the highways is everybody's business.  \nHow many of us here are licensed drivers?  \nHow many feel they could still pass the examina-  \ntion on traffic safety laws they passed to win their  \nlicenses?  \nHow many of the rest of us know and can repeat  \nat least half of the traffic safety laws of our state?  \n(Try it!)  \n*by coincidence,the span of years between the nation's first traffic fatality and its  \none millionth traffic death corresponds exactly with the length of Miss Wischmeier's  \nlife.  \nILlustrations by Stuart Judd,Jr.,a student at the Putney School,Putney,Vermont.  \n## Let's look first at some facts*\n\nMore than half the drivers involved in fatal accidentswere found to be violating one or more traffic regula-tions.Excessive speed*led all the other violations,beingaccountable for one out of every three fatal accidents.  \nThe danger in excessive speed lies in the distance ittakes to stop.On an average road,an average driver,going fifty miles an hour,travels nearly the length ofa football field between the moment when he first seesdanger,reacts,slams his foot on the brakes,and givesthe brakes of the car a chance to work,and the momentthat his car finally actually stops.  \nDoes fast driving get you there quicker?Tests undermodern highway conditions show there's surprisinglylittle time gained by greater speed.In heavy city trafficthis is especially true.The careful driver who obeys thelaws is apt to catch up_to the speeding driver at stopsigns and traffic lights.But the basic futility of excessivespeed is that it threatens other people's lives and yourown.  \nWhen the mercury goes down,and there's snow andice,the accident toll goes up.  \nA given number of miles driven at night produces fromtwo and one-half to three times as many deaths as thesame mileage during the day.  \nAbout one-sixth of all drivers involved in fatal acci-dents have been drinking.About one-fourth of all adultpedestrians killed have excessive alcohol in their sys-tems.  \nPedestrians make up about one-third of the nation'syearly highway fatalities.In thickly settled areas,twoout of every three victims of fatal accidents are pe-destrians.Pedestrian deaths pile up during the hours ofdusk and reach their peak in the winter months at duskwhen many persons are going home from work.  \nOf children between the ages of five and fourteenwho die each year,one out of every seven will meetdeath as the result of a traffic accident.  \nA truck driver receiving an award for twenty-fiveyears of steady driving without an accident was askedhis system.  \n*in behalf of the Center for Information on America,the editors wish to thank theNational Safety Council,425 North Michigan Avenue,Chicago 11,Illinois,for fur-nishing much of the material,including statistics,on which this Guide is based.  \nWHAT CAN BE DONE ?.  \n\"I drive,\"he replied,\"like everybody else was crazy.\"Put another way,what this amounts to is that this drivetnot only obeyed the rules of the 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