Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — Inexperienced Drivers. [ARTICLE]

Inexperienced Drivers.

The seemingly large number of automobile accidents which have occurred recently lead one to believe that there is either a great deal of carelessness on the part of drivers or else that the presence of too many inexperienced drivers has had something to do with it. A reckless driver is often less of a menace to traffic than a driver who, by reason of his inexperience, has not perfect control of his car. How often we hear of cases in which pedestrians have been run down or collisions have occurred because a driver has become nervous and has forgotten “which lever to pull” under trying conditions, when a little more experience would have made it instinctive for him to do the right* thing. The state now requires an applicant for a driver’s license to have had at least one hundred miles of actual driving experience before receiving license.