HOW MUCH FURTHER CAN WE REDUCE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

The author discusses the limits to future traffic accident reduction and notes that we cannot hope to eliminate all traffic accidents. Acts of God and human error will always contrive to have some traffic accidents occur. He notes that the degree of traffic safety that is brought about will be up to the public. Other topic headings in the article include: size of the traffic accident problem, accident causes are compound, big safety potential in highway modernization, greatest margin for improvement lies in drivers, accident record reflects tardy control, integration and uniformity, waves of concerted action, weaknesses of earlier programs, standard highway program for states, the action program comes into being, basis for fourth wave, doing only a partial job, traffic laws, accident records, engineering, enforcement, education, safety organization, motor vehicle inspection, public information, factors not subject to control, influence of the big registration states. The author concludes with the assertion that it is possible to cut the nation's traffic fatality rate to 3 by 1960.