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they arbor criminals who kill with a gun— are not willing to accept the fact there’s also a criminal driver, who can kill ia dead with an automobile as a murderer can With a revolver. Persons who are sentenced for speeding or drunk driving don’t lace the soeial stigma that another person with -an identical sentence, faces for a conviction of stealing a watch, Grdth added. If it were a fact that the vast majority of traffic accidents actually were accidents there might be an excuse for the public’# don’t care attitude.
But Lamb and Woodson said few of the accidents ojn the streets and highways are unavoidable.
In fact, Woodson said h#'s ordered the State police to stop using the word accident and to substitute the word crash.
The great majority of crashes are traced to human failings, Groth and Lamb said—most o f which are due to a callous disregard for the rights and safety of other users of the streets and highways.
“Yet other drivers are not, as many motorists seem to think actually trespassing on the motorists' road,’’ Lamb said.
Most think an accident coul d never happen to them, Lamb said.
“And deep down in their hearts they don't care what happens to the other person,” he added
—Richmond Times-Dispntch
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