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December 21, 1967     Shelton Mason County Journal
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S't Jcty Relates Driving Record, Accidents Southside: • Approximately one out of three, hicles, Director Douglas Toms every 18 Washington drivers is Finding out who these "high reported today. involved in an accident each risk" drivers are was the object In the study, accident rates for year, but for some groups of of a recent research project by the state's 1.7 million drivers drivers the chances are one in the Department of Motor Ve- were computed on the basis of • SOUTHSIDE- The Fire Dis- age, sex and driving record trict No. 4 firemen are getting a :: ' ' '  groupings. Accident and citation setof fire fighting apparel, which counts were for a one-year all the volunteer firemen are period, :1966, during which 95,681 anxious to get and something  + + Washington drivers were in- they needed long ago. p volved in accidents. The Fire District No. 4 officers + It was found that the chance of were elected to serve again for l   being involved in a traffic acci- the comingyear and one elected dent increases dramatically with fire commissioner Hank Unger the number of citations a driver will be serving for the Fire Dis- receives. Less than four per cent trict No. 4. of the drivers with clean records The next fire meeting will be were involved in accidents, while held at the Southside hall Jan. 16 per cent of those with one ci- 9, at 8 p.m. ration were involved, 21 per cent The Mason County Firemen of those with two citations, 25 per Commissioner Association meet- cent of those with three, 28 per ing will be held Jan. 4, at the cent of those with four, and 31 Southside Fire Hall at 8 p.m. per cent of those with five or The meeting is open to all mere- more. bers and officers of the Mason The percentage was high- County Fire Districts. er for drivers with four or more The Southside Grange had a citations who were under 20 wonderful turnout for it's Christ- mas turkey and ham dinner and years old (34 per cent) or over decorated Christmas tree all lit 70 (33 per cent), up and everyone enjoyed the din- "The purpose of the study was ner and some games were to help us identify the drivers played after dinner. whom we should be treating in The Southside Grange's new • . our driver improvement pro- heating system is keeping it gram," Toms explained, warm at all times. [ [ The department's driver im" The Grange is planning t° get provement program includes the inside of the hall painted. warning letters, personal inter- The next Southside Grange views, counseling sessions, and, meeting is Jan. 5. in extreme cases, suspension of Residence along the Arcadia the driver license. Loop Road reported some mail Gree "We could define a 'high risk' 'boxes and persons names from Les Fields Auto Pa00s driver as being one who has a the roadway were missing and one-in-four chance of being in- torn down, most of the items volved in an accident in a given were located a few days later. , year," Toms said. "On that basis, Held at the home of Mr. and teenagers with two citations are Mrs. Ed Wetmore last Saturday 'high risk,' as are persons over 70 with even one citation. But persons in the re latively safe 35-44 age group do not enter the 'high risk' category until they have received five citations in a single year." He added that the findings in- dicate the department should con- sider age as well as driving record in determining who should be contacted in the driver improvement program. "It may seem that we would be discriminating against the very young and very old," he com- mented. "But we simply want to reach the people who are most likely to have accidents. Our purpose is to prevent accidents, not to punish people." He emphasized that the statis- tics did not show that elderly drivers in general have high acci- dent rates; just the seven per cent of elderly drivers who re- ceived traffic citations last year. The highest accident rates for any group were found among 18 nd :Lq-year-old drivers. A larger proportion of women than men had clean driving rec- ords, and the overall accident rates of women were half as high as the men's. However, the acci- dent rates of women with cita- tions on their records were little better than those of men with comparable citation records. Toms said more research is planned to identify the character. istics of "problem drivers." "Now that we have established age, sex and driving record as factors in driver safety, we must further define our 'high risk' drivers by other factors that may be involved," he said, "such as level of education, physical and mental condition, and socioeco- nomic position." The study was conducted by Peggy A. O'Neall, senior re- search analyst, using statistics compiled by the department's electronic data processing sys- tem. Copies of the report are Greeting Drawn by Cheri Moore -- 4th Grade, Bordeaux Se.hool Fire District To Purchase Clothing By MRS. RAY KRATCIIA chard, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cook- Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. evening was the World War I Veterans pinochle Christmas par- ty. Mr. Morton Adams had high score. The Wetmores house was all decorated with Christmas dec- son of Bremerton, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kratcha and Shelley visited . Richard Wolf, Bridget and Syril, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kratcha. Mr. and Mrs. John Cookson and Your correspondent Mrs. Ray Jackie and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kratcha wishes you all a Merry Kratcha attending. Christmas. I L Greeting Drawn by -- April Kuhr -- 4h Grade, Evergreen School Page 22 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thureday, December 21, 1967 Cascade Natural Gas Co. A II i i orations. Attending were Doris Simpson, Polly Swayze, Joyce Byrd, Bobbi Baldwin, Jeanette Goldsby, Ruth I  . Snyder and Helen Kunkle. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John Cookson and Jackie and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kratcha in spite  of the snow were guests of Mr. , ; . ...... and Mrs. Richard Wolf and fami- ly of Port Orchard for the birth- day party held for J aekie Cook-  I i son, John Cookson, Syril Wolf and Dennis Cookson with Mrs. Wen Cookson, Anna Mac, Bever- ly, Jay and Dennis of Port Or- chard, Sid Cookson of Port Or- r 11  reeting Drawn by Donald Coots 4th Grade, Ev n School -- 5th Grade, Bordeaux School OLYMPIA, WAdlNGTON J,.,v, .Aus Drawn by 1Wary Wittenberg 5th Grade, Bordeaux School N I Olympic Research Division _ NATURAL RESOURCES CHEMISTRY ,., H I I I I i ,,... .. i Greeting Drawn by Brad Lowe -- 5th Grade, Evergreen School Phillips. Mobil " Drawn by Melvin Morgan -- 4th Grade, Evergreen SchoOl Mason County Stationer00 DEL & HELEN COLE Drawn by Tommy Williams -- 4th Grade, ]vergreen School Lloyd's Men's & Women'++ 409 Railroad Avenue