Oddity, Fun in Mishaps Stress Safety It seems automobile accidents have their lighter side. AN is not gloom in the United States annual total of 5,700000 reportable accidents, mishaps and fender scratches. A few of the occurrences are downright funny, many oddly lucky, the New York "Times Others, because of their obvious foundation in erve as effective reminders that er should keep his wits about him. An accident need not kill some one in order to prove its point.
For example, there was the we: n who ate apple as she drove. Tossing the core away she missed the open window and missed a curve in the road in recovering the fruit. The car turned over in a ditch. She was unhurt, but paid a large sum to repair the car. Her friends stored away the maxim to look at the road before apple cores.
Safety organizations and insurance companies possess in their filles a wealth of information about freak mishaps involving automobiles. Facts refute the popular idea that a motor vehicle, because of its rubber-tired insulation constitutes a target at which lightning won't shoot. The case of a driver bowling along an Arkansas highway during a thunderstorm happily illustrates vulnerability of kind. Lightning struck the car at the rear, ripped a hole in the gas tank and ran forward on a radio antenna to the engine, where it disconnected two spark plugs. Total damage was $6.75, not counting a "divot" gouged by the bolt in the concrete road.
Not long ago thirteen cars crashed together in Fort Worth, Texas. in a scrimmage begun by three automobiles, one of which was can g a man just hurt in another traffic accident to the hospital. The only person injured, after the street quieted down, remained the man being rushed to the emergency room. Again, this time in Cleveland, a skidding car struck a baby carriage being wheeled on the sidewalk A 3-year-old boy in the carriage was catapulted fifteen feet through the air toward a male pedestrian, who, with great presence of mind, intercepted the startled child and put him safely down.
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