that was how it began or should i say and i was very home to my wife and kids and i guess i didn't look too closely when i crossed the intersection then john smith who was driving a car was not just told me that he was thinking about that big deal with the us it hurt pretty bad at first that soon passed a lot tougher on my wife and kids and on john smith and his family well anyway i'm an expert as we are now i'm not so exclusive group of thirty four thousand people who are killed each year by automobile over a million or injured in making newspaper reports of automobile wrecks and statistics on the mounting poll taken by accidents are not particularly impressive to six don't leaders agree with me you can cripple a statistic or smash it speaks to a jelly or reduced but that's reason enough for us must respect each other's rights there are several important safety rules that for that must bear in mind always cross streets and intersections where drivers expect  stand on the sidewalk when waiting to cross intersection try to save a few seconds by stepping down from the curb or this may happen to you be extremely cautious when crossing intersections where there are no signal direction a car may be coming up the street behind you and turn into the street you are crossing to the unexpected drivers are not mind readers if you change your mind about which way you want to go do it on the sidewalk not in an intersection where changing your mind may be  children should be cautious not to play in the streets last year nearly nine hundred children were killed and several thousand injured entering and leaving your car on the curb side is the safest practice crossing in mid block is dangerous driver of a parked car may suddenly back up and crush you against the other car or you may be run down by an approaching car the driver seldom see human time to stop if you walk along the highways where there are no cyclops walk facing the flow of traffic so that you may see an approaching car and step off the roadway never walk with your back to approaching traffic you might be hit or cause a car to swerve causing a bad accident the driver must constantly be on the alert to not exceed a safe rate of speed you are driving a line of thirty miles an hour suddenly a child runs out ninety feet in front of you she's paralyzed upright you slam on your brakes and come to a halt just seven feet from the  but if you were going just five miles an hour faster you would have traveled thirty five or you would have stopped the child and travel of these among older people are high due to their slower reactions and their misjudging of distances travelled by the use of motorists must be especially courteous when handicapped persons or children are in or near the roadway their safety is your responsibility feeling that the headline glare makes him stand out clearly and boldly consider yourself invisible and according and speaking of being invisible that reminds me that my time is about to go i thought you might like to know what happened to joe smith the driver of the car that ran me down well the court ordered my wife fifty thousand dollars of course joe hadn't got that kind of money so we'll have to pay some each month for a long