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_______________________________ ______________ WIrrYPRÉ ~Ê&~WÈDMÊÜÀY, '1N 2994 E2 RANDY UcLEAN lB A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER. WHO SPECIAUZES IN TRAFFIC SAFETY. Mr. McLean has roviewed thousands of Individuai motor vehicle accident reports and his close working relatlonshlps with police agencies, governmrrents, safety- assodations, Industry and the publie, have given hlm a true overview of traffio safety Isaues, poblemrs and solutions ln Canada. DRIVIG TME C1T OUT 0F TME COUNTRY You can take the driver out of the city, but youl caret take the city out of the driver. City folk, like myseif, like to get away from the hustie and bustie of the urban area te a.peaceful, rural countryside setting. Unfortunately, (for the country folk) in our attempt te escape the rat race, we usually bringl two things along with us -- the race and the rats.. SCity drivers are ealways in a hurry. It doesn't matter whether we're twe minutes late or two heurs early. Once we get inte our car we instinctively huriy. Most city drivers believe they have an appointment deadline te keep with the: beach! This may explain why they se often risk life, 11mib, and high blood pressure, racing te get toe smewhere they can relax. Rats act on instinct. Once theve been trained te run through the blue doer, they aways run through the blue door. Similarly, once we've learned te drive in a certain manner, we almoet always drive in exactly the saine manne;, regardless of road, whether or traffiecenditions. Although there are obvious differences in the design o rural ade and urban streets, inany motorists drive ntal h same way on both., Compard te ost urbah streets, rural- roads can have sa !horizontal and steep vertical curves which sMgnificantly reduce visibility te traffic approachjng fromn side roads. Trees can ae limit sightline distances at intersections. 'Why are theseidifferencegimportant? If you appra~ this type of intersection at the maimum posted sped limit you. are probably overdriving the conditions. By the time you actually see a car cutting acrose your path, it will b. tee late te stop. The remîlt id a riglit angle collision, at relatively:higli speed, likely involving personal ny~uries. Since you are on a low volume road some distance fromt a hospital, it may be a long time before medical care is sumnmoned and arrives. Se there is a very real risk of miner or moderate injuries beconing more serieus. What can you do te reduce your risk? First, and most impertantly, recognize the hazard! As you approacli an intersection with liniited visibility, tell yourself (or at least think te yeurself) "I cannot tell if another car is approaching.' The niere thought should cause yeur right foot te, lift off the accelerater pedal. - You probably' won't lose' any speed, your momentum will carry you quite a. distance, but yeu are now looldng for an approaching vehicle and you are in a- good position te, apply your brakes immediately if the need arises. Depending on your age and reflexes you have just savedý yourself 1.5 te 3.0 seconds. More impertantly, you may have just saved someone's life. Angle impact collisions are dangerous. (Yntarie staistics show that of ail two-vehicle accidents, only head-on collisions remîlt in more fatalities. Lew-volume roads are net low-risk roads. If you can't see far enough te ensure your safety, then prepare yourself te respend quicly. Don't let semeone elIse involve you in their accident, DRIVE SAFELYI Advances toward better stopping syStems FRMPAGE.20 improved. Old -cars -have- <siàngle-systea' cylinders, mearnn there is one reservoir of brake fiuid for ail four wheels. Moderncars use a -dual system. The mastèr cylinder is- divided inte, two indépendent chambers, one for the-front wheels and one for the bock. If a brake lime fails on one set of wheels (a loss of fiuid in the Unme means ne brakes), there 'is stil uninterrupted fluid te the ether set of wheels. Once I had a brake lime rupture on a single-cylinder system. and it is frightening, there Simply are ne brakes. I can appreciate the improvements over the years Keeping'your brakes -in goed shape is essential. Have them. checked reçlarly te be sure the pads and shoes are net tee worn. Front-wheel-drive cars go through front brakes much faster than rear-wheel-drive, se den't assume its's toe sS oe't need a checkup. Check the master cylinder regularly te be sure it's full. If you need te top up the fluid, only use new fiuid eout of a sealed container. Brake fiuid is very eaily contaminated, and even a suisi amount of bad fiuid can mean replacing ail of the rubber cemponents -- a job that can start at $800 and go from there. Jf you put the cap back on a bottle of fiuid it can become contaminated just sitting on the shelf. Spend the extra $3 for a new bottie. (It is aise the mout effective pnt remover on the market, se eextra careful when you)re pouring it.) Engines have gene from fuel dripping into« the- engine te electromic fuel injection, bodies are now mnade of plastic, and steering can now work ail four wheqls. But no matter-how far inte the future w. go, nething has itnproved as mucli as the 9 stopping systeWn on your car. OId botties make better roads FROM PAGE 20 our landfills." Taxpayers could aise, end up as winners, sinoe making the plastic additive ftom scrap cSs about one sixth as 4nuch as the speciay-made polymers that are now being used. Moreover, studies indicate that roads with plastics mixed in are less slippery than traditional all-asphalt roads. Aitheugli laboratoey tests suggest that recycling plastics into rood is boh feaible and economnical, the idea lias stiil te, lie proven under harsh, real-world conditions. But that's about te change. TMm Ontario iityo Transportation lhas M =ie fv organizatioeis te sulimit their plastic-asphalt mixtures te lie tested along a portion of Hwy. 401 near Toronto that carries more than 26,000 vehicles a day. Plans cail for one ilometre test strips for each mixture te be compared for cracksý, potholes and rutting. Another Ontarie centre of excellence, the Manufacturing ]Research Corporation ef Ontario (MRCO), is aise, studying the reuse of waste materiai i road Cosrcin I~C lis .ored aTeac1> C -Ifée consortum of 10 iron foundries te investigate the recycing of sand contaminated in the foundry casting process. his sand lias traditionally been dumped in landfiil sites, but the growing shortage of dunipsite capacity lias driven disposai costa skyward, hurting the competitiveness of the industry. 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