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it is no wonder, then, that week-ends, like holidays, are periods of mass slaughter on the highways. Unfortunately, however, American families are not accustomed to thinking of their Saturday and Sunday holidays as constantly recurring danger periods for automobile travel, as they have been taught to regard the national holidays.
When week-ends coincide with a national holiday, there is always a long list of dead and injured that gives at least a momentary shock to most people. Perhaps some may drive more safely for a few days, but when the next week end rolls around too many have lapsed back into unsafe motoring practices which cause the weekly bulges in accidents that pile up lists of dead and injured almost as long as those compiled following tht official holidays. And this goes on throughout the year, with the result that 41 percent of all highway fatalities and 36 percent of all injuries occur in week end accidents.
Only last week end this writer observed two forceful reminders of careless driving on our highways: one morning while sitting in the restaurant next door I overheard the following conversation between two young men “how fast were we going when* the car
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