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nen* Safety Topics in TRAFFIC SAFETY (Couijaotd into cowj How to Achieve More Effective Traffic Law Enforcement (A Symposiu ...................................................................................... 26 Improving the Performance of Present Police Personnel (Chthls)............... 26 Why Accident Investigation Should Be Improved (Carret)....................... 29 How to Obtain Public Support for Enforcement (Lomy)........................... 30 Specific Police Problems (A Symposium)............................................. 34 Problems of Foliec Organization-Centralized Control and Area Command fSafcroeiJ................................................... What ShaoJd Be the Police Attitude Toward Sponsored "Hot Rodding" and "Drag Strips** (Fleming).......................................... 34 36 Responsibility of the Engineer in a Traffic Safety Program (Billings)......................................................... 39 The Engineer Accepts His Responsibility, in a Traffic Safety Program (A Discussion)....................................42 Who Should Attend Traffic Court School? (Rosenthal)........ 49 Are Innocent Motorists Pleading Guilty? (Nctherton).................. 50 How Far Does the Court's Responsibility Go Towards Traffic Safety? (A Panel Discussion)........................ 54 Gvie Action and Public Education (A Panel Discussion)............ 58 Committee on Gvic Activities for Traffic Safety.......................................... 61 Open Discussion Groups Automotive Accident Injury Prevention......................................................... 65 Problem Drivers--Their Identification and Treatment................................ 65 Vehicle Operation and Control on Turnpikes............................................... 66 Will Severe Penalization Reduee the Accident Toll?.................................. 67 Promotional Idea Eschange......................................................................... 68 The Need for Traffic Training........................................................................ 66 Practical School Crossing Protection............................................................ 69 Improving Your Traffic Inventory Reports..................................................... 70 What's Wrong with Accident Records?....................................................... 71 Problems of Chemical Tests for Intoxication............................................... 72 Techniques of an Organization for Traffic Safety............................... 73 Safety Supermarket Each fall, some 1200 afety experts from all over the U.S. and many foreign countries gather in Chicago to discuss safe attitudes, methods and equipment. It isn't just a gossip session. There's serious thought and talk on how to prevent the tragic accidents-- on the job, off the job, in the home; on the streets and highways-- which'claim about 95,000 lives every year. Each edition of the Transactions is a handy reference to the up-tothe-minute idms and experiences of these top men in all fields of accident prevention. Safety people everywhere have found in the Congress Transactions much useful ammunition to aid them in the war on accidents. Tbe National Safety Congress Transactions are published in volumes, each covering a phase of the safety picture, along with a General Sessions and Detailed Index to all volumes. The volumes of the 1956 Congress Transactions are listed on the last page of this volume. In preparing these Transactions, the proceedings of the Congress have been condensed and edited for reference purposes. Complete original manuscripts, with any charts'or illustrations which were used, are available in National Safety Council files. View's expressed at the Congress or in this record are those of the Congress participants and are not necessarily those of the National Safely CotmciL THE TRAFFIC SECTION This volume is a record of the sessions held at the 1956 National Safety Congress by the Traffic Section. The conduct of these CongTtes smsums och year is only one of the many cooperative activities which the Traffic Section carries on in behalf of its roonbers, and for the benefit of accident prevention work in public safety generally. The Section gives guidance in the preparation of a great variety of technical and educational material useful in day-to-day safety programs. The activities of the Section are under the direction of its Executive Committee, the members of which are listed at the close of this volume.