KANSAN Comment
Have a safe
At the risk of sounding trite, this is an editorial about safe driving. It is not one that will give the pros and cons to the argument. There are no cons.
Beginning today KU students will leave the campus, heading in all directions to all parts of the country. Some will fly, some will take trains and many will drive. A number will be traveling 20 or more hours, a safety hazard in itself, if you figure exposure time.
All the National Safety Council slogans have been noticed and stored somewhere in the human memory bank but they don't seem to matter when one has only a week and a thousand miles to go. All the safety tips are available: stop and rest, drink coffee, turn down the heater and get some fresh air-they are all available, but how many will be used?
Why use them until you experience that split second rush of fear that runs through and stiffens your body just as you realize you're going to hit something? Why use them until you hear the sickening metallic crunch of two cars colliding that only the victim of a bad accident can describe—if he wants to? Why use them until you hear the sickening silence in the first moments after a wreck? Why use them until the moans of your passengers begin to develop in your ears while the pain develops in their bodies?
Why use them when you only have a week in Fort Lauderdale? After all, accidents happen to the other guy. Take a look at some of the other guys on this page. (ATJ)