LUCK IN DRIVING
“WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEENS” In a recent statement the president of the Automobile Club of New York said that nine out of ten motor-cars involved in accidents are in good mechanical condition before suffering the fractures and contusions into which their operators drive them. This, he says, is established by extensive accident analysis. A writer in the “New York Times” comments: It scarcely taxes an analysis of accident statistics to convince anyone of the truth of this conclusion. All one has to do is watch people drive. Stand on any busy street corner five minutes, and you’ll see one or more accidents that might have been if they don’t actually take place. Drive a short distance on any travelled highway, and you’ll see one or more accidents that don’t happen purely because of luck. And this is going on everywhere all the time. By the old reliable law of averages, this condition produces its daily quota of accidents that do occur. The very fact that many accidents are avoided by pure luck means that others are not avoided—because luck never works twentyfour hours a day seven days a week, lor anyone.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 10
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194LUCK IN DRIVING Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 10
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