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is a weu Known iact among traffic statisticians that only about one-third df a day’s normal traffic volume is on the streets. and highways during the ham' of darkness.
Yet, nearly "every -day of the | year more fatal accidents occur at night than in the daytime '
This was called to our attention again just recently iqrhen the . State of Massachusetts released its 1966 accident figures.
* In the hours df daylight (6:06 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.), 196 persons lost their lives iin traffic accidents. Note that these hours inJ elude both, so called, morning and evening "rush hours” when many j 'workers wend their way to and ii from work. j
And yet we see that in the hours between 6:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. 306 persons lost their lives—111 mor^ • fatalities than occurred dpnng daylight and yet —only'TBbut ode-third as much _ traffic flow wa* on the streets
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To what cob » e attribute these disproportionate odds? .To but one major factor—the inability to seel ». * ' Since our human faculties and reflexes break down with the coming of darkness, we \raust look for a solution. Either we must create super-human beings, able to see as well at night as in daylight, or—we must provide the present human ndth enough light to see after darlk.
Even though the "voVcies in■ Wived in these fetal crashes were
50.9%