and From The Files Of 25 50 Years Member of Audit Bureau Circulation and Class A Newspapers Serving Newmarket and rural district of North York year a Published every Thursday Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Company Limited Subscription 7 for two yean for oho year la advance d each Member of Glass A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorised as Second Class Mail Post Department Ottawa Newmarket Era 152 THE EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY THE I NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTYTHREE highways during adds that it is strongly that students and others attempting the phy sical fitness tests suggested by President Kennedy should be discouraged from us ing the main highways or other welt travelled arteries All road the responsibility for traffic safety Pedestrians too are road PEDESTRIANS TO BLAME TOO to their death The main responsibility for traffic safely is charged rightly to the auto mobile driver Every person who drives should be aware of his duty to protect the lives of others Drivers traffic authorities and police must always bo especially careful to protect who are vulnerable in any conflict with a moving vehicle But is enough attention given to the fact that pedestrians also have responsi bilities A report of an accident caus ing death or injury to a pedestrian brings Instinctive sympathy for the victim and a reflex feeling of accusation towards the driver Often according to the On tario Safely League the blame is mis placed One of the reported fatalities in 1062 that aroused public emotion involved a blind mail But public reaction might have been a little different if the full facts were released at the time The un fortunate victim was walking on a high way intoxicated It would sympathy should go to the driver Mho now carries the burden of having taken a blind mans life In 1962 there were pedestrians the traffic fatalities in On tario The Department of Transport re ports that pedestrians died on our highways Of these or were tried to have been at fault nine were shown as ability impaired and had been drinking In Metropolitan Toronto in slightly more than half the traffic vic tims were pedestrians slightly more than half of these pedestrians were judged to he at fault in the accidents that killed them Major J Hughes head of the Departments Accident Statistics Divi sion says that it does not make sense that as many as people should walk from nl