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Brake Tests Reveal Reasons for Many Accidents 

 By C. W. Seagraves, Safety Department 



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MKKRILV wi- roll iil.mi:. r.ill aloiiy. 

 roll alontr. merrily we roll alotiy. 

 killiiiir. kiiliiii;. killintr' 



AtiH till' pari ihal is hard to under 

 stand is that we want <<i. 



Kill oursol\<'s aiul let the family take 

 care of itself? Snre. if we can mak«' 

 better time while takintr that chance. 



Cripple sonieliody else for life? Of 

 course, rather than hav<' our hrakes ad 

 iusted carefully 



Wreck our ears disputing' a riirht of 

 way with an uninformeil ilriver who 

 we knew was not (romjr to stop while wi 

 could have? You l>ef. We will jrladly 

 smash our ears to maintain our riirht of 

 way, although we eould not have lost 

 more than five s«'eonds in slowinjr down 

 while the other car could pass through 

 the disputed intersection ahead of us. 



The car operators of this ,-tate hav« 

 established beyond a ilouht that they 

 want to kill, or if they don't actively 

 want to kill they are unwillinjr to go to 

 any effort to avert such a tragedy. 



How do we know? .Simple enough. 

 The Illinois Atrricultural .Association has 

 Rone to the expense of rentintr an elabo 

 rate piece of brake and lijrht testing: ap 

 paratus. It has arran^red to send it 

 around the state to irivi- free tests to 

 motorists. 



To date we have fouml that two out 

 '>f every three drivers keep their oars in 

 a dangernus condition. We found no 

 brakes, or poorly adjusted brakes which 

 cause skidding, on many ears. No li)rhts. 

 or lights which are out of focus and blind 

 other drivers. No horn, no w iiid!»liiel<l 

 wiper, no tail lijrht. no stoplij;ht. no rear 

 vision mirror. Why woiddn't we kill? 



None of us is .so mentally incompetent 

 that we fail to realize that slipshod 

 standards for car maintenance are prin- 

 cipal factors in many accidents Know 

 ing that, and having just discovered that 

 two out of three drivers still ignore this 

 fact, we reach the inescapable conclusion 

 that most of us want to kill on the 

 highways. This cannot be rationalized 

 by feeble statements to the effect that 

 it is just neglect. That excuse might be 

 satisfactory if we were explaining why 

 we did not fix a fence, or take out in 

 surance before the fire, or pay our taxes 

 before a penalty wa.s incurred. 



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SHOWING lAA Safety lane in operation in hancock county 



First in line is the car of Mayor G. R. Hearne of Carthage with the front whee's on the tes* 

 ing machine. In the background are D. H. Stevenson, president of the Hancock County Fafr^ 

 Bureau; Lee Sharrow a director and C W Espy insurance director Ralph Duncan is the Sta*«» 

 Highway Patrolman. 



Hut when it i? a matter ot life .iini 

 th»' lives of those who love and trust us. 

 and of other people using the highways, 

 we feel that carelessness doesn't ,ide 

 • mately explain th«' position 



How about you? .Are youi brake- 

 evenly adjusted? .Are they good? When 

 were they tested last? Do you know- 

 that your life and the welfare of anyone 

 driving with you at times depend-- 

 wholly on those brakes? When did yoii 

 last see your tail-light burning? Do 

 both of your headlights work on bright 

 ■ind dim? Have you a boot in any of 

 your tires? Is your windshield wiper 

 ready for the rain and sleet and snow 

 that it will -oo?i lie ■■ailed upon '•■ 

 remove ? 



Ask yourself these <|Uestiotis riieii. 

 if you qualify in all remember that two 

 nut of every three cars you meet are 

 not. They are depeiuling mi you to get 

 out of their way and when you fail '■< 

 do this, there is another accident. 



Following are safety test n—ults ir: 

 I'i typical Illinois counties: 



.Sixty-three percent of cars tested were 

 rejected as unsafe. 



IVrcenlace »{ Those Rejerlert lor K.arh 

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• eueil fi-iiiii l«>ip a<lditioi:al counties ~fiou 

 that reject«'<l cars are increasing. 



Merrily -we roll along Who will ha\' 

 ' he next accident " 



NEWS 



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Mu<-h ha- beei -.1 .1 ;■■> .ut -tricter ve 

 hide laws- and of course w-e nee<l then 



liut lei's not overlook the too obviou- 

 tact that we probably cannot legislat< 

 -afety an\ nun eifiTiiv i-ly than \ve di't 

 -oliriety 



\oiuiiies tiave tieen writtei, on dn\i!.t 

 psychidogy. so-<-alled safe drix mg met!- 

 • ids. the results of fatigue on car op 

 erators, traffic laws and <iang«rs. etc. Fc 

 the' person just learning to drive, thi- 

 material is all very well. Ilowc-v.-r. :i 

 considerable portion of our automobili 

 accidents are caused by drivers w hi 

 knew they were t;«king .1 i-hancf w he' 

 a mishap occurred. 



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