A Moment in Time: Safe Driving Day 1954-1955
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2021-06-10
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Abstract:The concern about highway safety goes back to the early years of the automobile era. But at a moment in time on December 15, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the public face of an effort to dramatize highway safety by convincing the country’s drivers – collectively, the nuts in question – to go one full day without accidents.
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