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Traffic Safety for
July 4th Holiday
Richmond, Va.,. .Notingthat the four-day Memorial Day holiday this year cost Virginia 20 traffic deaths. Colonel C. W. Woodson, Jr., Chairman of the Governor’s Highway Safety Committee and Superintendent of State Police, today told motorists that a few simple precautions canheavi-j ly increase the chances of! avoiding a Fourth of July crash. “No one can drive safely when he has been drinking, is! sleepy or is tired," he said. “Speeding and hurrying are simply gambling lives against seconds that might be saved. The involvement odds go up at night and with the increase of traffic flow," he continued. Colonel W ood s o n also advised mechanical c h e c k s o f automobiles, noting that sustained, open-road driving can bring out defects which might not be readily noted in ordinary driving. The Fourth of July weekend last year, a three-day one, saw 12 deaths. Total deaths for the year are now running far high er than for the same period of 1966. The safety official made a I special plea for strict observance of all traffic laws. “Some drivers," he said, “seem to Ifeel that they should have a i certain amount of immunity ; simply because they are away I from home." Here he stated that about 85 percent of all fatal crashes involved a 1 a w
| violation. As a final caution, he asked that drivers who survive the weekend not feel that they can drop their precautions and be safe for the rest of the year. “All weekends are dangerous and the second half of the year always sees more deaths than the first,” he concluded.
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