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For Safe Driving Tips Are Given On How To Avoid An Auto Collision Readers Asked To Imagine Crash Situations. Rates Of Speed Are Listed By STAFF WRITER What can be done to avert an au to collision? This is a question that every driver should consider as warm weather approaches and traf fic fills the open highways. Fortunately, when two cars pass each other, the drivers usually hear only a pleasing swish, but now and then their nerves are shattered by a spine-chilling crash and scream of twisting metal. Usually, some body gets hurt, and far too often meets an agonizing death. The Institute for Safer Living of the American Mutual Liability In surance company says that there are a number of things you as a driver can do to avoid locking horns with your fellow motorist. Mostly, it is a matter of thinking out the situation in advance and rehearsing your strategy until you can act on a split second’s notice. This may be done by imagining various crash situations as you drive along and deciding what you would do to dodge them. The most common emergencies to prepare for are these: 1. A car coming toward you head on in your lane. 2. An oncoming car swerving at you from the opposite lane. 3. A car coming toward you from an intersecting street or road. 4. A car passing you and cutting in too soon. 5. A vehicle stopped or stopping suddenly ahead of you. If it is a choice between hitting an oncoming vehicle and “hitting the ditch,” that is, running off the road, the latter is usually the right choice, except where there are pe destrians. Remember that the im pact of hitting a stationary roadside object may be far less than the (NOW THAT OLD WINTER^ HAS HAD ITS FLING - V 3-2121 I Funeral Held For * Loonie Allen Ashe ^oonie Allen Ashe, 60, died at his home near Brevard early last Thursday morning after a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held Fri day afternoon at the Sol’s Creek Baptist church, in Jackson county, with Rev. Theo Rose officiating. Burial was in the Sol’s Creek cem etery. A native of Jackson county, Mr. Ashe was a member of the Rocky Hollow Baptist church. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Mae Alexander Ashe; one daughter, Mrs. Clarence E. Gold smith, Belton, S. C.; two sons, Lu ther Ashe, Brevard, and Shirley Ashe, Glenville; and one sister, Mrs. Birdie Ashe Phillips, Wolf Mountain. Osborne - Simpson funeral home was in charge of arrangements. wallop of a car moving toward you. If you are certain to collide, how ever, it is still possible in many cases to swerve so that you take the impact with a glancing blow rather than head on, which means striking with much less force. If doubt arises as to which di rection you should swerve, remem ber that in approximately 90 per cent of the cases your chances are better by swerving to the right. Few drivers are aware of the sur prising distance that a car travels in a second’s time. If you learn to recognize and understand this dis tance at varying speeds, and are prepared to act accordingly, you are in a much better position to avoid a collision. A quick method for estimating this distance traveled per second is to multiply the speedometer read ing by one and one-half. Thus, at 20 m. p. h. you travel approximate ly 30 feet per second; and at 40 m. p. h. you cover close to 60 feet. But watch out if you are do ing sixty. You are covering almost 90 feet per second or each time your watch ticks five times. Ninety feet is five times the length of your automobile. Suppose that you had only 200 feet in which to prevent a collis ion, could you stop or swerve in time? If you’re going fifty, it will be almost impossible for you to stop in that distance. To sum it all up, one of the best ways of avoiding a collision, is to travel at reasonable speeds at all times, and in keeping with highway conditions. But if your subcon scious driving mind is properly ed ucated and rehearsed, it will work wonders toward helping you to avoid that crash. Incidentally, one of the principal reasons why horns were invented is to warn of an impending emergen cy. Always use it to alert the other driver while you are taking your own emergency action. Keep Your Radio Timed To RADIO STATION WPNF 1240 ON YOUR DIAL Top Shows and Top Artists AS WELL AS VARIED PROGRAMS OF LOCAL APPEAL Accident Deaths Triple Korean War Dead How some of the 95,000 accident deaths in 1953 were distributed as indicated above. The total is more than triple the number of Americans killed in the Korean War, says the National Safety Council. Brevard High Students See Safety Driving Demonstration < Reaction And Braking Chart Explained. Local Rec ords Are Good More than 500 Brevard high school students saw a demonstra tion on safe driving methods Thursday sponsored by the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insur ance company. Arrangements for this demonstra tion were made by the local repre sentative, Carl Stephens, and spon sored by the safety patrol of the school. Prior to the demonstration a film, “Then There Were Four,” was shown. In the film the impor tance of minor traffic violations and the large part they play in fa tal accidents was stressed. W. W. Morris, of the Farm Bu reau, preceded the demonstration with an explanation of the Reaction and Braking Chart which deter mines how soon a person can stop an automobile traveling at various rates of speed. For the safe driving demonstra tion a 1954 Pontiac, equipped with a loudspeaker was used. Drivers were students Donald Kilpatrick, Mary Ellen Loftis, Coach D. G. Dail and Police Officer Charley Wright. The students both drove the car at 20 miles per hour. After the signals were given it took Young Kilpatrick 19 feet to apply his brake, 24 feet to stop, for a total of 43 feet. This compared with the average of 40 feet. Miss Loftis’ record was better. It took her 13 feet to apply the brake after the signal, 24 more to stop, for a total of 37 feet, slight ly less than the average. Coach Dail was driving at a speed of 30 miles per hour. After the signal he reacted in 27 feet, applied the brake to stop the car in 46 and his total stoppage was 74 feet. The average is 77 feet. Officer Wright was traveling at 40 miles per hour. He stopped in 120 feet, as compared with 124, the national average. Principal R. T. Kimzey expressed When you think or presenp .ons. think of VARNER’S.—adv LET THESE AMAZING fzcMittete *7ocU SAVE YOU MONEY MOORE REGISTERS AND STOCK FORMS FOR REGISTERS FAST, INEXPENSIVE An easy system for the use and control of multiple-part vocational records and other business forms. Bills of Lading Collection Reports Restaurant Forms Credit Memorandums Inventory Sheets "'THE RIGHT BUSINESS FORM FOR EVERY FORM OF BUSINESS" THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES fa The Times Arced# pleasure at the success of the dem onstration. He urged the boys and girls to heed safe driving rules and \ said that he hoped a driver educa tion training course could soon be set up at the local high school. Stocks of merchantable potatoes held by growers and local dealers j in the United States on January 1, ] 1954, were estimated at more than [ 120 million bushels. When you think of prescrip ‘•ns. ihink of VARNER’S.—adv Chances For Traffic Mishaps Increases With Registration “As the number of registrations for motor vehicles mounts in North Carolina, so does the chances for increased traffic mishaps.” That was a statement made yes terday by Drs. E. O. Roland and Frank McGuire, local optometrists, who are in charge of the local ob servance of National Save Your Vision week. “Better vision on the highways,” they said, “is imperative in these times of increasing traffic on the roads.” For safer trips, they offered the following four tips to all motorists: 1. Keep your eyes on the road. Visual inattention is one of the commonest oversights in driving. Many smashups occur because driv ers window-shop, light cigarettes, use the ash tray, tune the radio or look at a person while talking to him. 2. Keep the windshield clear at all times. Dust, fog or any type of discoloration can dangerously ob j struct the driver’s vision. 3. Be especially cautious while driving in the low visibility boom of early morning and late aftnw noon. This is when the toll is hem*-. iest. 4. Of course, always dim ligtete when approaching a car at And also dim lights when foUw ing a car at night. 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Come in and drive this great GMC. It will do all the selling—by itself. * Truck Hydro-Mafic Drive standard on tome models, optional at extra cost on others. modem t> ck! Be careful —drive safely Goodwill Motor Company, Inc. S. Broad Street Dial 3-3611 Brevard, N. CL. —You'll do better on a used truck with your GMC deafer■
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