Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1919, Page 8

1p ne _PAGE EIGHT HOT AUTO ORNER SHOULDOO AT TIMES OF ROAD AGEIDENTS Get Witnesses’ Names and Make Measurements and Diagram—Other Details to Be Followed When Smash Occurs—You May Need It in Court. To the owner of a brand new car: who is just testing his fic is z so to speak, on the highway it may seem goulish to talk shado i h 3 Nevertheless, acidents involving motor cars do Tse not only to the engineering prob- Jents. happen, though im a majority of cases the car owner is not to blame. unless he knows what to do w to protect himself, he is in a unpleasant predicament simply he has failed to take cer- tions. Of course, the thing dreaded most by everybody is doing bodily injury to some other on. Yet accidents of this kind occur every day, and in prectically all of them the injured person has been guilty of at Ist contributory negligence. To begin with, the car owner should try to keep his mind as calm as possible and note all the attendant circumstances at the time of the accident. He should stander their names d also those of peo- buildings, provided those people witnessed the accident. Get Names of Witnesscs. If the motorist knows that the fault has not lain with him he should point t to the people whose names he nthered ticular phases of the lent, measure any distances that be germane to the subject, by E , if no other means is at hand. Be certain to get some corrobora- tion of the rate of speed at which the car was being driven. If the horn or other warning signal was sounded be sure to have witnesses ready t | help prove this fact. In ease the ac- occurred at the intersection it is important to prove ehicle had been slowed ore coming to the crossing. of the most important points offered for a jury’s consideration is : her or not the car was in its ace on the street. Was a? Testimony Ip the defend- pncy brake was ced witnesses er use in court. nt happens at night nportant to prove that the lights properly burning and in order. When the mishap occurs in rainy yveather or when the streets are slip- it should be shown, if possible, d chains were in place - In some cities, Detroit stance, there is an ordinance miking the use of chains mandatory pery weather. So when the car is involved in an accident the owner should c: -_ is effect will fh If the eme: set, un how th f But no matter how blameless the motorist may be, hen the accident occurs, knows 'to the chains, if they are on the tires. ‘In case the trouble comes when the car is making a turn, call attention to the fact that it was making a wide turn, in accordance with the statutes, and was on the proper side of the road. If a person has been injured, |kry to remember his conduct just be- fore the accident. Was he behaving {n a way to make him guilty of negli- rence, as, for instance, sheltering him- ‘self under an embrella and not keep- ,ing a proper lookout? Were you, the toperator, looking ahead and attend- ing to your driving or were you talk- ting or otherwise permitting your at- !tention to be distracted? Be sure to get measurements, showing the dis- jtance from the nearest crossing and ‘from both curbs at the time of the ac- cident. If the accident occurred at night, how near was the nearest street illumination. Try to prove that you slowed up your vehicle and did not trust to a blast of the warning signal. In other words, try to prove that you | took due precautions and did not put the entire onus on the pedestrian or other person injured. Measurements Are Important If you can prove by measurements that you brought your car to a halt , within the distance required for checking the progress of a car driven within the legal speed limit, you will have scored a distinct point. This is the reason for taking measure. ments at once, while the scene | fresh in your mind and none of the persons and things involved has got- ten away. In securing evidence the car owner will find it helpful to draw a rough diagram of the scene, marking posi- tions of the various actors, animate and inanimate, upon it and indicating the distances that have been meas. ured. If there was any other object be sure to indicate it. With evidence of this kind gathered at the time of the accident, the car owner can pre- sent his best case, whereas, if every- thing is left to memory unprompted | and assembling of witnesses is left, until days after the accident, the de- fendant will find himself at a great | disadvantage. The question of whether it is best tention of witnesses 'to let the case go to _the jury or not properly handled, _ MATINEE—2:30 & 4:00 P. M. NIGHT—First Show at 7:30 P.M. Che Casper Dai Cribune * HIGHWAY TRAFFIC GVERSHADOWS THAT OF RAILROADS|COZLEGE NGINEERS OF NEW LASS WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26.— “Traffic engineers will be essential members of the taffs of Na- tional and state highway departments jif the enormous and intensive needs ‘of traffic are to be met,” says George 'C. Diehl, chairman of the Good +Roads Board of the American Auto- mobile Association. “Highway traf- y at a point where it ever- ailroad traffic and has given lems of building high durably | but to traffic problems which call for ‘wider highways on main routes and involve consideration of such traffic questions as co-ordinating parellel roads, providing detours, economical- ly locating roads with reference to tonnage and passenger requirements, routing traffic, sign posting highways and the conduct of construction and repair work to interfere as little as possible with the flow of traffic. The Tederal Highway Commission when it is established can do more to bring order out of confusion in the handling of these great traffic problems than any other conceivable agency. “To emphasize the magnitude of traffic we should bear in mind that ‘probably 75 per cent of the seven, million motor vehicles which will be registered this year will be confined to not over 20 per cent of the high-! way mileage in addition to city streets. This would mean about 12 vehicles to the mile or about one to every 450 feet. To show how easily traffic may become congested on a | Narrow road take for illustration the Baltimore-Washington road and as- sume that a motor truck passes a giver point at a speed of miles an hour at 15 second interva As the truck would travel 22 feet a second ‘there would be one truck for ever '830 feet and it would only take 628 trucks to thus fill up the whole space betwe Baltimore and Washington. | Any fairly long train of trucks wouid therefore congest all passenger travel to a degree where the situation would {make a settlement out of court is {generally left to the lawyer to de- cide. However, the car owner should remember that he will practically al- ways have the sympathy of the jury against him. For this reason, where a reasonable settlement can be made jout of court, it is at-least worthy of erious consideration. Of course, na car owner involved in an accident | serious enough to bring him into jcourt would be without the services }o fa lawyer. But it may be pointed jout that for a case involving any con- |sderable expense, the best obtainable legal assistant is by far the cheapest in the end. There are many small twists and turns even in effecting a settlement that may make more trouble fo rthe car owner if they are GIRL VS. SHOP GIRL, ESSENTIAL TO SOWE T° arrer wins | \ become acute. We do not have to| (By United Press.) lock far into the future to see just) BOSTON, April 26.—Have shop such conditions and we must realize | girls better taste in dress than col- that only by wide roads or parallel lege girls? roads can such situations be met. Just} This momentous question is the where and how much the road should ‘subject of a heated’ controversy among be widened, where the parallel roads | New England college girls. It started should be built, where the heavy types' when someone (no. one knows who) of construction should be located, ) declared that college girls show very where detours should be provided are} poor taste in selecting clothes, while problems which call for traffic sur-|shop girls dress as anyone would ex- veys. i - “Traffic surveys would take intp | Seecgeateee ciel po aes and ae jaccount the tonnage and Passenger | ple out.of 100 would expect a ‘shop traffic originating in zones along the} girl to dress. President H.: C. roads and at local and ultimate termi- | Bumpus of Tufts ni, the vehicles already in use and the jeollege, here recently, made a test probable development, the existing which added to the discussion, by hav- ‘highway facilities including parallels | ing 49 girls from Jackson "college and would provide for building, main-| choose some feminine article of dress, tenance and management according to a plan in which the engineering’ and ltraffie problems would be co-ordi- | nated.” , —— Because of the ste of natural gas in the production of carbon black manufacturers will close plants in West Virginia and use gas wells in Louisiana or Wyoming too remote for ; community use. — | A factory to make paper from i straw has been established in ina by Japanese. ri TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN! 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