Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-07-21
BELT DISCIPLINE IS NECESSARY TO AVOID ACCIDENTS

Road manners may be described as |oluntary regulations which tend to live greater safety to all pedestrians
 and road users, and which are adhered to by the thoughtful driver because he realizes what intense annoyance can be given by their nonobservance, says the Car. This is a better spirit than Ehe one revenge, the one which causes the motorist to keep to the crown of the roaA when another and faster car wishes to pas him.
 One of the most widely neglected rules in the code of motor manners ! S that which condemns swinging across the front of another vehicle inn |mediately after passing it. This is often the result of trying to get in Front of slower vehicle without al- \ fling sufficient space for oncoming |rt0ffic. This means that in order to |avoid being crushed, the car must be burned to the right as soon as it is a |bonnet's length ahead of the other ve- [hicle. Haste sometimes makes other |wise polite drivers resort to this man. |euver, but it causes so much incon- |venience and, in some cases, danger, that it ought, under all circumstances, Ito be studiously avoided. The need for |speed is only sufficiently urgent to excuse it in one case in thousand. The habit of overtaking on corners |comes more accurately under the cate Igory of bad driving than bad manners,
 for, assuming normal speeds and a road so narrow that there is room for only two cars abreast, no conceivable maneIver can be made either by the driver of the overtaking car, the over- taken one, or the oncoming one
 (should this appear at the corner) which can avert an accident. It is ob- vious to everyone that this practice is made use of so frequently as to be almost a generally accepted one. The chance of all the three cars meeting
 under exactly the conditions required to insure disaster are very small, but If the habit is resorted to, it means that chance is being taken; that luck is being entirely relied upon for the safety of the car and it's occupants. No avoidable chances should ever be taken on the road. Remember that every driver except yourself is fool, and that it will take you all your time to prevent being run into apart from risking running into anything else. Let the youthful sportsman also remember that, although he may not object b committing suicide, there are others who prefer to continue their ex- istence in this world
 When driving in towns a course should be followed approximately as closely as possible to a straight line. Every deviation should be clarly in- dicated. This does not refer solely to the recommended method of hand sig naling, which should of course, be strictly adhered to, but also to the cars path of travel. For instance, if cross roads are arrived at, and it should be intended to turn, the hand should tbe held out, but besides this, the car should be made to bear slight ly to the side to allow other traffic to pass. The importance of this in- dication by the movements of the car is in reality much greater than hand signaling, for it removes any doubt that may exist in the minds of follow ing drivers. Avoid a sudden turn.
 The brakes are so much relied upon by some drivers that they are said to "drive on their brakes" and natu- rally this practice is to be depre- cated. The braking effort differs enormously on different yob;cIoc and