WAGING WAR ON AUTO SPEEDERS
Waging War on Auto Speeders DESPITE the passage of numerous ordinances and the adoption of traffic regulations in the larger cities of the country in an effort to curb accidents from motor cars,...
...Curbing the Accidents TO curb accidents in St...
...1, to August 1, 1922...
...Another ordinance requires all persons to be able to drive an automobile unde all conditions before being granted a state driver's license...
...Strict enforcement of speed laws and frequent jail sentences for speeders and reckless drivers has been the method adopted in Indianapolis for increasing safety...
...Penitentiary sentence under charge of manslaughter is provided for drivers found responsible for deaths resulting from accidents...
...Detroit's attempts to increase safety are the adoption of the tower system of regulating traffic and the establishment of safety zones...
...Thirteen deaths because of automobile accidents were reported during the first six months of 1922 in Dallas, Texas...
...In downtown sections the right-hand turn only is permitted, cars are required to stop at least five feet in the rear of street cars discharging passengers and safety zones have been established at various points in downtown streets...
...In Chicago in 1921, deaths attributed to motor accidents totaled 575 as compared with 475 in 1920...
...Seventy persons were killed there during the first six months of 1922 and 1,921 were injured...
...Louis, where sixty-two were killed during the first six months of this year and 1,327 were injured, an educational campaign has been started, one-way traffic has been established in congested districts during business hours, automobiles must come to a complete stop at all boulevards, must not pass a street car discharging passengers and must not exceed eight miles an hour in the congested districts and twenty miles in the residential districts...
...Fee of $2 a Mile AN "unwritten law" is in effect in Louis-ville where police court judges assess a fine of $2 for each mile an hour above the speed limit...
...During the first for months of 1922, non-fatal accidents totaled 2,593...
...This increase has caused city officials to prescribe drastic rules in governing motor traffic...
...Cars must be under full control at all street intersections...
...Several of the cities are shown to be waging war on the speeder, in many cases imprisonment being added to fines...
...Heavy white "Stop" signs painted on the pavement at these intersections remind the driver...
...Forty-three persons were killed and 1,055 injured in automobile acidents in Cleveland from Feb...
...Milwaukee has barred the left hand turn and instituted a jay-walking ordinance requiring pedestrians to cross streets at intersections...
...Adoptions of rules in turning at street intersections, elimination of glaring headlights and educational campaigns are methods used...
...Automobiles on prescribed thoroughfares are given right-of-way over all traffic crossing such streets...
...In downtown sections traffic officers direct pedestrians while others direct street traffic...
...Waging War on Auto Speeders DESPITE the passage of numerous ordinances and the adoption of traffic regulations in the larger cities of the country in an effort to curb accidents from motor cars, reports from more than a dozen of the metropolitan cities of the middle-west show an increase in the number of accidents for the first six months of 1922, as compared with the same period in 1921...
...Non-fatal accidents totaled 8,657 in 1921 and 7,035 in 1920...
...To offset this, workhouse sentences have been imposed upon speeders and reckless drivers and no one under 18 years of age may drive a car...
...In Oklahoma City, most of the main traveled streets have been designated boulevards and before crossing these motorists are required to come to a complete stop...
Vol. 14 • December 1922 • No. 12
