Chapter XI: Highway Accidents and Their Mitigation 351

Accidents Result of Disorder, Codes to Prevent, Automobile
Accidents Lead in Number. Causes: The Driver -- Mentally or
Physically Unfit, Ignorant, Indifferent, Reckless; Driving
and Operating: Recklessness, Speeding, Around Sharp Turns,
Passing Cars. Horns. Stopping Cars on Grades, in Streets,
etc., Backing. Other Forms of Carelessness. The Car: Skidding,
Brakes, Flexibility, Steering and Turning Ability, Lights,
Unlighted Vehicles, Speedometer. Bad Roads: Slipperiness --
High Crowns, Embankments and Guard Rails, Super-elevation --
Rule for, Clear Vision, Curves, Bridges and Culverts. Railway
Crossing Accidents: Prevalency, Elimination of Crossings --
Cost, Automobile Drivers Careless -- Observations, Methods
of Mitigation; Bridge Clearance. Pedestrians -- Jay-walkers,
Obstacles that Obscure Vision, Pedestrians on Country Roads,
Slow Going Vehicles, Bicycles. Road and Traffic Regulations:
Development of, Council of National Defense Code, Education
Necessary.

CHAPTER XII

HIGHWAY ESTHETICS 382

Indispensable Elements of Architecture -- Stability, Utility,
Beauty. Esthetic Sense -- Applied to Roads, to Landscape
Gardening. Styles -- Natural and Formal. Application to Roads.
Varieties of Road and Street Trees -- List; Shrubs -- List;
Climbers -- List. Semi-formal Style. Telephone and other Poles,
the Ideal Section, Legislation Necessary. Local Conditions
Determine Planting.