that you can't but we're going to be up there in a couple of weeks on our vacation anyway i hate to make that long extra trip down i know but one hundred fifty miles each way this would be my busiest time for installing phones in a new subdivision and they all want service right away if not sooner and their safety program is taking a lot of time to why do you have to spend so much time on now to make sure that our people know the value of safe driving it which reminds me i've got to find a day where i can take my own driver refresher course you mean you don't have to upon a defensive driver is one who makes allowances for the lack of skill and a lack of knowledge on the part of the other fellow who recognizes that he has no control over the unpredictable had straight concentration and he asked me to work it out for the class you see what i'm trying to prove is that driving is a full time job when you start looking so that when she told you to concentrate on what you're doing you mustn't think about the what about that one red line same thing when you have a call or listen i know that i've got it home kiddo i know when i'm well off i must warn woody about that when he uses his poster and that's a big one family problems personal problems you just can't be worrying about problems and concentrate on your driving at the same time yes ted how you going to help that everybody's got problems and they can be job problems too like a storm knocking out a cable those are things that you're bound to think about all right i'll give you a problem think about as a driver and it's a real problem we believe that the vast majority of accidents happen because drivers are thinking about something else besides their driving i still don't see what we can do about it we have to drive through any idea john but i think we have to be realistic about it no matter what we tell them drivers are still going to think about other things besides driving that's for darn sure i think if we try to develop safe driving habits and concentrate on them while we're driving then we'll be much better off right and one of the best driving habits you can learn is to keep a buffer zone space good around your moving vehicle now for example let's say you're going at twenty miles an hour on in two way traffic with cars parked along the side of the street your buffer zone should look like this one car length allowed for each ten miles of your driving speed will provide you with seeing space so that the actions of the drivers around you can be observed in time to keep out of trouble and provide you with space to see head to a traffic light or something like a double parked car you know you can see things like that if your bumper chasing another car it also provides you with thinking time so you can make the right decision about the conditions around you and it provides action time so that you can come to a quick sure stop or take whatever other action is necessary in order to avoid an accident that's why we have these refresher courses including our road test this afternoon just to make sure we're not slipping into any unsafe habits right now let's set up a problem on the traffic board here we have a car going east and one of our installer trucks heading north the intersection is unmarked either way the stop street both cars reach the intersection at the same time a situation like this when there's any question about so called right away we have to remember that in our company we always give the right away never take it another words you practice courtesy right that's one of the three things of defensive dri telephone company to remember we can be mighty proud of the fact that the bell system is one of the most outstanding safety records and has had for a long time but the only way we can keep that record is to work at work hard to make it even better when the public sees this bell system sign on one of our cars or trucks we want to be able to say there goes one of the most considerate drivers in town probably some of us when we're off the job forget and leave our defensive driving know how in the company garage and that's why the driver of this car if he's doing what he's supposed to do will be just as careful and just as courteous as when he's driving to the company now and all of us do that we won't be having twenty times as many injuries off the job as we have driving on the job twenty times as many that's right at the limit we know better why don't we do better think about that what if the next time you're out in that's just your pumpkin go choice i mean get in there sunday drivers are really out today they're always out that's one of the things we learned defensive driving we not only have to watch out that we don't make any mistakes ourselves but we have to look out for the other drivers too we have to protect ourselves and them too if we can you know it's a pretty sobering thought but whenever i am not in traffic and i see those cars whizzing by like that i say to myself which ones will it be today which ones will be what they will be in an accident one out of seven of those guys will have an accident before the year's out and that's according to statistics in the next five years every one of those drivers will be involved in an accident i so i always remember that and i try to be extra careful myself i don't want us to be one of them  one that came out without stopping i wonder how a driver like that feel after causing other people trouble and getting away scot free i'm so pretty small i bet yeah i wonder what that when they're thinking right now there's some sort of knows i don't have any accidents clear off the road never pays to get mad when you're driving you're inviting an accident you take time to yell about other drivers even if they drive like idiots it's not up to you to tell them off try to get even  million dollars i've got a hundred now suppose somebody came along and offered you a million dollars for your life would you take a job don't even talk like that do you mean oh the stakes are too high for what you can possibly get out of it they found my lifeless body they found my son crumpled an unconscious from hitting his head on the windshield helen cathy shaken stunned it isn't fair to die of such a little thing that wasn't my fault i wasn't ready to die besides who's going to take care of my family i'm the one who does that and right now it's when they need me the most that's what fathers are for don't do they don't know that boy until a doctor  can thank god they're not hurting worse than they are but who's going to look out for me that's the horrible thing about it next doesn't just end here look at that helen has never had to handle anything like this by itself now she's out here in the middle of nowhere what's she going to do what is she in the children going to do from now on without me what's going to become of me well i found out the home was breaking up the home that had been the center of our world on happy us and helen lester hunt the sweetest person in the world but not prepared to cope with things things like keeping rest of the family together moving up the river mother lives meeting tommy's doctor bills about the same i'm on my way over there right now well he'll be better i'm sure he will thank you bye goodbye for saying a little boy's been in a coma for over a month  never going to consciousness after the accident where is he now still in the hospital it is that you just don't it's me where you been i've been around you remember the accident sure we did on it after but it was my fault you know that don't you that's why i came back i had to be sure you understood you do understand don't you turn the other car was going so slow and the horns were honking behind us and i thought we could get around but the other car swerved over and suddenly the truck w