Over a Hundred: Cases With Four Fatalities Thus Far -Up to the 20th of this month, street accidents on the records of the Police Traffic Department numbered 120. Motor car casualties take a lead, with 63 cases reported, one person being killed and 34 injured, while 2¢ others escaped without personal injury. Tram car accidents total 28, including two killed and 13. in jured. Both fatalities, and two of the cases of injury, were due to passengers endeavouring to leave cars while they were in motion. There were five accidents, including one fatal case, from the motor truck traffic, and two motor cycle and 30 other minor cases, The Department is specializing the instruction of chauffeurs, combining optimism and _perseverance in the hope of eventually creating a class of experts whose intelligent handling of a car and appreciation of the rules of the road may leave nothing to be desired—or at least may leave the pedestrian with a fair chance of using the road safely. Here are some of the latest "Safety First' rules to be issued Don't follow a tram car too closely. Their brakes are stronger than yours, Always give hand-carts, bicycles, and rieshas plenty of roo Sound your horn only when necessary.
Keep off the tram lines if you study your tyres.
Remember that motor car lamps are to ight your path, not to blind others.
Don't stop your car in the centre of the road.
Don't race your engine.
Don't leave your car with the engine running.
Don't grind your gear.
Be careful to slow down at cross roads.
Turn corners at a slow speed.
Don't use your lamps or a naked light near a petrol tank.
is ast admonition appropriately closes the present series. since failure to observe it would cancel the necessity for. further instruction.
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