Safety Tidbits

Safety Tidbits

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Be Extra Careful on the Road this Weekend – Focus on Your Driving! The National Safety Council estimates 395 people will be killed and an additional 42,300 injured in car crashes this Labor Day Weekend (between 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, and 11:59 p.m. Monday, Sept. 1). It also is estimated that 144 lives may be saved this Labor Day holiday period by buckling up. “Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer activities – it should be a time of celebration,” said Deborah A.P. Hersman, president and CEO of NSC. “Unfortunately this weekend will be a time of tragedy for hundreds of families that experience a preventable fatality on our roadways.” To ensure a safer Labor Day holiday weekend, NSC recommends drivers: • Refrain from using cell phones – handheld or hands-free – because there is no safe way to use a cell phone while driving; • Do not manipulate in-vehicle infotainment systems or electronic devices, including GPS systems, while the vehicle is in motion; • Make sure all passengers are buckled up and children are in safety seats appropriate for their age and size; • Allow plenty of travel time to avoid frustration and diminish the impulse to speed; • Drive defensively and exercise caution, especially during inclement weather; • Designate a non-drinking driver or plan ahead and hire a taxi.

 

Always Dim Your Lights for the other guy

My brother and I were driving one evening to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Atlanta. He was driving the car. And for some reason the drivers were very discourteous that night. They didn’t dim their lights; hardly any driver that passed by dimmed his lights. I remember very vividly, my brother A.D. looked over and in a tone of anger said: ‘I know what I’m going to do. The next car that comes along here and refuses to dim the lights, I’m going to fail to dim mine and pour them on in all of their power.’

I looked at him right quick and said: ‘Oh no, don’t do that. There’d be too much light on this highway and blind us all. Have some sense.’

Somebody must have sense enough to do what is right, and that is the trouble, isn’t it? As all of the civilizations of the world move up the highway of history, so many, having looked at other civilizations that refused to dim the lights, refuse to dim theirs, too.

Arnold J. Toynbee tells that out of the 22 civilizations that have risen up, all but about seven have found themselves in the junk heap of destruction. It is because civilizations fail to have sense enough to dim the lights; to yield to their fellow man. Civilization will be plunged into the abyss of destruction, when love and understanding are absent in the world. All will be destroyed if nobody has sense to yield on the highway of life. Source: A Knock at Midnight: Inspirations Martin Luther King, ]r.

We live in a “Cat Kicking World”. When someone has been kicked by life, or an uncaring person (aka ‘had their cat kicked’), they in turn want and often do kick someone else’s cat. And, that person does the same… the cat kicking continues. Someone has to break the cycle and Stop the Kicking! So the next time someone kicks “your cat”; take a few minutes and just breathe and recognize that, more than likely, someone just kicked their cat, too… You and I must be the ones to Stop the Cycle – let people vent…then have it stop with you! In doing so, we can make a positive change in the world. Nobody wants their cat kicked and no good comes from it! The world works to tear us down – let’s work to build each other up. Excerpts from Zig Ziegler “See You At the Top”.

Safety Wayne

Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees. -Al R. Young

Thanks, WK