Use of Radar Cuts Marion Speed Rate
Use of radar has cut speeding in Marion, Police Commissioner Bob Yearack said Monday.
The radar was put into used November 7th. Yearack said 20 persons driving from 11 to 16 miles per hour over the limits were ticketed since then.
“My telephone hasn’t been ringing in the past week with complaints about speeding,” he said.
The company manufacturing the radar had given it to the city for a 30 day trial. If the city keeps it after the trial it will pay $1,095.
Yearack said police now are giving each person ticketed a 12 page pamphlet entitled “Death on the Highway” which contains pictures of wreck scenes and text on safe driving. They are furnished by Suicide Club, Ft. Myers, Fla.
Sam’s Notes:
If you purposely haven’t tried to block it from your memory, anyone who attended high school in the 1950’s and 60’s will recall being forced to watch extremely graphics, driver education films, also called “Death on the Highway.” The films depicted absolutely gruesome images of car crashes resulting in severed bodies and de-capitated heads which were shown uncensored in all their gory detail. Presumably, this was an attempt to scare kids into being extra careful, which it probably did. It also turned a lot of stomachs and likely traumatized a lot of children with its graphic depiction of death.
(Southern Illinoisan, Tuesday, November 15, 1960)