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cess, for the program was very well received by the citizens, eager to do something themselves about the ever growing menace on our highways, caused by thoughtless motorists. The program seemed to appeal to them as a down-to-earth way of attacking the problem at the grass roots level, for here was a program, developed many years ago by the National Safety Council, to teach fleet drivers, the drivers of our large trailer trucks, our intercity buses, the knack of learning how to "drive to arrive alive. " The original program, as it was developed, was cut here, trimmed there, changed to the compact course as we know it today, the driver improvement program, or better yet, the defensive driving program. Nor was it presented a bit too soon, either, for we have reached a point where daily we realize the loss of 134 lives, see 5. 000 disabling injuries, and stand a dollar loss of over $23, 300, 000.
Locally, here in Maryland, our deaths have risen from 461 in 1961 to
When the Superintendent of State Police, Colonel Carey Jarman, first
Several years ago, feeling concern not only with the genera] deteri-
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