Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unprecedented volume of highway crash litigation has brought the American judicial system to the point of crisis. A presidential commission should be established to review the process of accident investigation, enforcement of traffic laws and the litigation of claims arising from highway crashes...
...following are excerpts from the report of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, made public last week. The Committee was chaired by Daniel P. Moynihan, Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...those hazards arise from technology introduced by the government itself, for example, in the case of the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere. Similarly, it is not to be avoided with respect to activities that in their nature require a high order of public regulation and surveillance. Hence, traffic safety has been a matter of public concern almost from the first appearance of the automobile. In their nature, automobiles have required the use of (and eventually the construction on an unprecedented scale) of public streets and highways. Further, from the beginning, this use was accompanied by a very high...
...through the licensing and regulation of the automobile than through any other single public activity. Not all these dealings were especially uplifting, and some acquired implications all the more ominous because they so quickly came to be regarded as natural. Thus in the course of the regulation of highway traffic, the incidence of arrest by armed police in the United States has undoubtedly reached the highest point for any civilization, democratic or totalitarian, in recorded history. While ours is assuredly a free society, it has nonetheless become commonplace for an American citizen to be arrested by an armed officer...
...public administration have for some time rejected this view, arguing that government bureaucracies are just as likely to burgeon for lack of energetic social policies as in consequence of them. There is no area in which this truth has been more relentlessly displayed than in the field of traffic safety. Year by year as the number of automobiles and drivers grew, so did the number of accidents and injuries, and so did the records, the regulations, and the regulators. The only thing that did not accumulate was reliable research evidence as to what was going on. Beginning in the late...