Cars Are Safer.
People in little towns like this have found that roads laid out for horses, and later for drivers who drove slowly enough to wave, are now clogged with tractor-trailers that come from far away and are headed for no place near here. For someone accustomed to the whispering silence of county roads, the sudden appearance of a semi with Texas plates bulking over a hill can be as disorienting as encountering a locomotive on a sidewalk. An elderly couple died last year when their car was rear-ended by one truck and driven head on into another as they waited to turn left at the Amwell Diner on Highway 31. Two others have died on that road in recent years. Marvin Reed, the Mayor of Princeton Township, another truck-clogged place, said he had believed that the surge in semis was due mostly to the completion of Interstate 287 through northern New Jersey, which connected the highway with the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway.