Smyrna times., 1938-09-01
Is POINT AUTO
SAFETY PLAN
Offered by Governor McMul-
len in a Forty-eight Page
Manual
FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES

A model program of traffic safe
ty activities for Delaware commun-
tiles has just been announced by
Governor r. Q. McMullen. The
program, describing a 15-point at
tack on automobile accidents, is
contained in a 48-page manual,
Creating Safer Communities, .
published by the State Motor e.
hicle Department. The manual
tells how to set up a community
traficfh safety organization and
presents a series of procedures for
reducing accidents by removing
their causes. According to Cover
nor McMullen, the suggested pro-
cedures are based on an accident
control techniques tested in cities
throughout the country having
outstanding safety records.
Commenting on publication of
the manual, Charles L. Terry, Jr.,
Motor Vehicle Commissioner, said:
This program is devised not only
as a guide for accident reduction
but it presents methods of reliev-
ing congestion and otherwise OBJ
tanning a greater degree of traffic
control. We are coming to realize
that there is reciprocal relationship
between traffic accidents and traf-
fic inefhciencies. AS we facilitate
traffic, we make it safer. At the
same time, we increase realty val
ues and in other ways halt the
great economic waste, direct or in
direct, caused by uncontrolled mo-
tor traffic"
Copies of the book will be mailed
this week to city and town officials,
police executives, school author
tiles, judges, officers of civic or
ganizations and outstanding citi-
zens interested in traffic accident
prevention All will be urged to
consider the application of the plan
in their own communities. They
will be asked to fit it into trac
safety activities now in operation
or TO use it as basis for safety
programs under consideration.
Publication Of Creating Safer
Communities" was made possible,
it was stated, through the cooper
alton of the State Motor Vehicle
Department and the National Con-
servation Bureau of the Associa-
tion of Casualty and Surety Execu-
tives. The Bureau is a non-profit
organization established by leading
stock casualty insurance compan-
les to aid accident prevention and
has gained nationwide recognition
for its work in traffic safety.
The four basic features. of the
Motor Vehicle Departments sug-
guested program include the prep
aration and use of accident facts,
the extension of child and adult
education, improved enforcement
of traffic laws, and better engin-
eering for traffic safety. The or
ganization of a Citizens Traffic
Safety Committee, where no sucn
committee now exists, is called for.
This committee is urged to work in
close cooperation with municipal
authorities, the police, the schools
and the courts. Where possible,
the appointment Of the committees
chairman by the mayor or cores
ponding authority is recommended.
Creating Safer Communities" IS
divided into five parts. Part One,
entitled Getting the Program I'm
der Way" describes in detail the
preliminary steps for organizing
the Citizens Traffic Safety Com
mittee. 1t tells how the ground
work for a community program
should be inaugurated with the ap-
pointment of four committees for
action.
Part Two deals with the work of
! Continued on Page Six)