Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a torpedo," says Dr. Stanley H. Schuman, member of a four-man team of doctors and social scientists that has just finished a study of young male drivers for the University of Michigan. "Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for young men between 16 and 24. Although young male drivers amount to only one-eighth of all registered drivers, they are responsible for a third of all fatal accidents." As a result, they are being killed in epidemic proportions. Last year the total was 12,200-more than double the number of U.S. servicemen who died...
...Every bit as astonishing, adds Schuman, is what the Michigan team has learned about the young men who are still alive. Of the 288 unmarried male drivers under 25 interviewed, more than a third had had accidents during the past year, and nearly half had received tickets for moving traffic violations. "When they begin driving, they are aglow with new skill and somewhat careful," says Schuman. "If they have accidents, they are usually merely fender benders. Later, they want faster cars and take more chances." Accidents for drivers over 21 and under 25 are fewer-but more often fatal...
...Chilcott, vice president of Nationwide Mutual Insurance, recently suggested that "mark of Cain" license plates be issued to drivers with bad records, restricting them to essential trips. And New York State now issues new drivers of all ages a six-month "probationary license," rescinding it for a serious traffic violation, restoring it only after obligatory driver clinic and reexamination...
...more courts in the U.S. to hold manufacturers to tougher standards of liability when their products cause injury. Indeed, one member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Roger Kiley, agreed that "automobiles are intended to be used in an environment in which a traffic death occurs every eleven minutes and an injury every 19 seconds, and in which there are reckless, irresponsible drivers like Bigham. In my opinion, General Motors is chargeable with the duty of reasonably foreseeing the probable dangers" of building a car capable of high speeds...
...options as a zippy 280-h.p. engine and racing stripes. Roomier than the Mustang, but with a price in the same range (about $2,500), the car itself not only stands to catch on, but, says Company President William Luneburg, its sporty look should also "give the showrooms a traffic boost" for other lines...