Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With dawn, Air Commerce officials speedily reconstructed the accident. For some unknown reason, the pilot had apparently decided to return to the airport, banked sharply to the left at full speed when too near the ground. In the maneuver, the wingtip caught in a ditch, tripped the plane into a...
How to explain all these circumstances, as usual, baffled everyone. After a week of investigation by Air Commerce Director Eugene L. Vidal himself, no one had produced a better explanation than Chicago & Southern's President Carleton Putnam. Numbed by the first fatal accident in his company's three...
*Also in trouble with the law at Coney Island last week was one Bernard Roth for wearing the white uniform and stethoscope of a hospital interne. Chased away for pretending to be a doctor, he claimed that he simply wanted to be able to help a life-saving crew in...
There are, according to Dr. McClintock, three fronts on which to attack this simplified accident picture-driver, automobile, road. The shortcomings of the nation's 40,000,000 drivers cause most accidents, but experts agree that it is hopeless to expect "voluntary rehabilitation." The driver must be externally restrained...
In the meantime, regulating drivers and automobiles are the sole makeshifts. In the driver's case, expert analysis proves that 15% of them cause nearly 100% of the accidents. These accident-prone drivers (whether speed maniacs, psychopaths, drunks or morons) can be policed off the roads. In this regard...