The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-05
vi. The One Light Danger

vi. The One Light hanger
The law requires every motor We
hicle using the highways at night
to have lighted headlights from one
hall hour after sunset until one half
hour before surise and at any other
time when there is not sufficient
light so a person can be seen 200
feet away.
Motor cycles, road rollers, road
machines or farm tractors may have
one or two, but ordinary passenger
cars must have 1.-TWO head lamps
no more, no less, at the front and
at opposite sides OF the motor We
hicle."
Auxiliary lights are permitted
with certain limitations, but the re-
quirement that trucks and pleasure
cars have two lighted headlamps at
nlg... - definite and specific.
Many counties and municipalities
are enforcing this rule rigidly, still
there are scores of cars on the road
at night with only one light.
The rule requiring two lighted
headlamps at night is one that
is dangerous to violate, even il
there is not a traffic officer within a
hundred miles. Failure to observe
this rule has led to many accidents.
Gary :. spare bulb, or get new
one at the first corner.
VII. Keep to the Right
"Keep to the Right" has long been
the rule of the road in America,
but there must be exceptions. These
are defined in the new Minnesota
traffic code. 1t says that "Upon all
highways of sufficient width, except
upon one-way streets, the driver of
a vehicle shall drive the same upon
49, right half of the Travelled por-
ton of the nIgnway and shall drive
a slow moving vehicle as closely as
possible to right hand edge or curb
of such highway, unless it is i'm
practicable to travel on such side of
the highway and except when over
taking and passing another vehicle"
When crossing a railroad or an
other highway, all vehicles must at
all times travel on the right hand
side of the road unless it is OBJ
structed or impossible.
When overtaking and passing an
other vehicle it is permissible to
drive on the left side only when the
left side is clearly visible and free
of oncoming traffic for a sufficient
distance to permit passing safely.
VIII. Stopping at Crossings
Vehicles carrying school children,
passengers for hire, explosives, in
flamable liquids, vehicles having
another vehicle of equipment in tow,
vehicles of the tractor or caterpillar
type, must stop at all railway and
interurban grade crossings.
All vehicles must stop at cross
ings marked with a "Stop" sign,
but in the case of school and pas
senger buses, the driver has a
special responsibility for their safety
hence this requirement that they
stop at all crossings.
A collision between a train and a
tractor, "cat," or a truck carrying
explosives, gasoline or kerosene,
would very likely do serious damage
to the vehicle and it's driver, to the
train, the trainmen and the passen-
gers. Therefore this additional
safety rule was put into the law.
TX. Signals at Railway Crossings
The new traffic law requires
every driver of motor vehicle or
street car, when approaching a rail
way grade crossing, to stop ''when a
clearly visible and positive signal
gives warning of the immediate ap-
proach of a railway train or car"
This is apparently intended to
prevent racing to beat the train to
the crossing. People who do such
foolish things are usually people
Mho have no regard for law, hence
it may seem useless to put this into
the statutes. But it is a good safety
rule, and the whole traffic law is
largely a collection of carefully COM
piled safety rules.
But there is another reason for
this rule. The modern crossing
signals which show "STOP" when