Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1935, Page 30

B—-10 « DR.H.C.DICKINSON DISCUSSES SAFETY Suggests Three Rules to Reduce Hazards of Auto Collisions. Three suggestions designed to re- duce the hazards of automobile col- lisions were advanced last night by Dr. H. C. Dickinson, chief of the heat and power division of the Bureau of Standards, in addressing the Wash- | ington section of the Society of Auto- | ‘motive Engineers in the University | Club Dr. Dickinson. a well known traffic ‘expert, said the hazards virtually| ‘eould be eliminated by: 1. Preventing motorists from driving “4n the wrong traffic lan= to pass other | vehicles. | 2. The abolishment of all grade| crossings. | 3. The removal of bridge ends, trees | and other objects an automobile might strike after leaving the road. | Passengers in automobiles equipped | with modern all-steel bodies, he said, | are seldom hurt when the machine Jeaves the road unless it strikes a tree or some similar object ‘ Cites Dangers in Passing. Dr. Dickinson emphasized the danger of driving in improper traffic lanes, pointing out that it tokes approxi- mately 6 3-10 seconds for an automo- , bile to pass another going the same di- ,rection. Before passinz another car, Uhe said, the driver shculd estimate how far he is going to travel in the "time required to pass, and then allow “@ safety margin of several scconds. | He named the pedestrian as a serious | traffic hazard, declaring an automobile | traveling at a very low rate of speed is apt to kill any one it strikes. He cautioned pedestrians against walking | into the street from behind parked cars and stressed the need of good brakes. Head-on collisions, he said, are 8 source of potential danger, but de- clared statistics show only one fatality from this cause in 1.000.000,000 pass- | ings. 1 Speed, he said, should be governed | by the driver’'s ability to stop upon | seeing danger in his path. Although | 36,000 persons are killed annually in the United States in traffic accidents, | Dr. Dickinson said the time saved by | < motor vehicle travel is too important | to permit of its discontinuance. The remedy, he indicated, lies in safer | driving. Urging a program of education rather than strong-arm methods to make safe drivers, he also suggested a system of reporting unsafe drivers by civilians, and then informing them how their driving was unsafe. Following Dr. Dickinson, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer said | four or five hundred men to report | bad drivers might be an aid in safety education. A similar system was employed some time ago. Urges Gathering of Evidence. Burton W. Marsh, director of the gafety and traffic engineering de- partment of the American Automobile | Association, urged police to gather all evidence pertaining to causes of traffic accidents for use in prose- | cuting the driver responsible. Other speakers included E. D. Mer- rill. president of Washington Rapid + Transit Co.; Dr. F. A. Moss of George ‘Washington University: W. O. Wheary, director of safety for the Works Progress Administration: H. V. Schrei- ber, safety engineer of the Capital Transit Co.; Lowell Mellett, news- paper editor; Everett C. Scott, vice president of the Sterrett Operating Service, and Assistant Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge. | Phillip R. Wheeler, chairman of the section, presided. ARMY ORDERS. Leach, Maj. Gen. George E, Re- serve. chief of the National Guard Bureau, relieved from duty as chief of National Guard Bureau and from further duty here. November 30. Howell, Col. Robert P, Corps of En- gineers, to be retired November 30. Field, Maj. Robert B., Quartermaster Corps, from duty in office of the Quartermaster General here, to Brook- lyn, N. Y., not later than December 31. Sherry, Capt. Bertram J.. Signal Corps, from Fort Monmouth, N. J., to duty in office of the chief of Signal Corps here, about December 1. Spring, Capt. Valentine F., Special- ist Reserve, from Philadelphia, Pa., to active duty in office of themAssistant Secretary of War, here, November 10. | NAVY ORDERS. | Barleon, Capt. John S., detached as professor of naval science and tactics, | ‘Yale University, about February 29; to command U. S. S. Arkansas. Caldwell, Capt. Turner F., detached command U. S. S. Cincinnati about | January 25; to duty as professor of naval science and tactics, Yale Univer- sity. Jones, Capt. Herbert A, to be de- | tached as director and instructor of | Naval Reserves at Los Angeles in De- | cember; to command the cruiser U. S now included in Fumpress-Britain WORLD CRUISE ‘Two days added to cruise at no extra cost! From New York Jan- uary 7 instead of January 9. 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