14—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Dec. 11, 1980
Right-on-red increases accidents
WASHINGTON (UPI) The adoption of . right-turn
on-red laws has boosted collisions at intersections by 20
percent, or about 20,000 annually, with 1,400 of them in
volving pedestrians, an independent research group
estimated yesterday.
A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safe
ty compared police-reported crash information from
six states where right-on-red laws were adopted bet
ween 1974 and 1977 with three states where the law re
mained unchanged.
It concluded that indiscriminate right-turn-on-red
laws conflict with Congress' intent in 1975 of promoting
such a policy only to "the maximum extent practicable
consistent with safety."
Only a handful of states allowed the practice in the
early 19705, but Congress made it a requirement in
return for federal aid for state energy conservation
plans.
Now it is permitted in all states and the District of
European editorials call for U.S. gun contro
LONDON (UPI) Violence has
become an accepted part of the
American way of life and will not be
cured until there is effective gun control,
European opinion -makers, shocked by
the shooting murder of John Lennon,
said yesterday.
Lennon's "meaningless murder is in
creasingly typical of New York, and the
United States in general, where the
freedom to carry guns has brqught forth
monsters," London's New Standard said
:n an editorial hours after the British
musician was shot and killed in Manhat
tan Monday night.
But the thrust of editorials, including
those in Irish newspapers, condemned
the laxity of American gun laws and call
ed for them to be toughened.
Irish sociologist William North said
Lennon's slaying was an "inevitable out
crop of the laxity in American gun
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"The right to own a gun has always
been an emotive subject in the United
States, dating back to the Founding
Fathers," North said.
"Anything short of a fullscale tighten
ing of the laws will be useless to contain
such violence, and such a move would be
resisted right down the line," he said.
"At the moment there does not appear
to be any ready answer to the problem.
The United States has become a violent
society and will remain so while power
ful interests prevent proper gun
control."
Most European nations make it very
difficult for private persons to own
firearms.
British law, which is typical, bans the
sale of guns, including hunting rifles, ex
cept to people issued a permit. Among
other rigorous conditions, permit-
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Coluimbia unless specifically prohibited by a sign at the
intersection.
Extrapolating from the data, the analysts estimated
that if similar laws were enacted during the same
period in all states, 20,000 additional crashes would
have resulted each year, 1,400 involving pedestrians.
That finding is almost double a 1976 prediction by the
Federal Highway Administration. The agency conclud
ed the law would reduce fuel consumption and auto
emissions with a "relatively insignificant number of
accidents."
The insurance institute said the results of its study
"show that, whatever the savings in gasoline resulting
from right-turn-on-red, they are being paid, for in in
creases in pedestrian and other intersection crashes.
"In fact, the adoption of right-turn-on-red leads to an
increase of more than 20 percent in all crashes involv
ing a right turn at signalized intersections, with
substantially larger percentage increases in urban
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Gestures play an important role
in our society, yet they are
often misread or
misunderstood.
and intercultural corn
munication in his speech
entitled,
seekers must prove their need of a gun.
Owners must keep weapons pistol,
shotgun or rifle locked in a safe or
thief-proof cabinet. Guns may not be
carried except in specified cir
cumstances, for example while travel
ing to a shooting club, and the weapon
must be disassembled. Ordinarily,
British police carry no weapons.
In Dublin, the Irish Press recalled the
1963 assassination of President John F.
Kennedy and said there had been "much
talk in America" of tightening the laws
on the possession of firearms.
"Nothing was done and now, yet
again, we witness the tragedy of a
lunatic let loose with a gun.
"Will that lesson never be learned?"
the newspaper asked.
The Swedish newspaper Svenska
Dagbladet, reflecting on "violence in the
U.S.A., so unfamiliar to us in Sweden,"
and
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The data showed crashes in urban areas increased 25
percent. Collisions involving a vehicle and a pedestrian
increased 59 percent overall, with pedestrian-vehicle
collisions in urban areas alone jumping 79 percent.
Elderly victims fared worst: the study found a 110
percent increase in the number of them hit by vehicles.
A 100 percent increase was found for other adults, and
a 30 percent increase for children.
Adverse effects could be reduced by outlawing right
on red in urban centers with heavy traffic, the resear
chers suggested.
The findings contrast with the economic benefits of
the law which the study estimated at a fuel savings
of 25 million to 190 million gallons annually, or from 0.2
to 1.3 gallons of fuel per car and an annual time sav
ing of 0.3 to 1.7 hours per driver.
The institute, founded in 1959, is a research organiza-
tion supported by auto insurance companies
said, "It is ironic that such a 'peace
apostle' as Lennon should be the victim
of a murderer . . .
"But the violence mentality is so
widespread and unfortunately ac:
cepted in the U.S.A., including the
right of everyone to carry weapons, that
the end for John Lennon was made all
the worse."
The Times of London editorial called
Lennon's death "peculiarly American."
The London Daily Telegraph editorial
said, "A man who lived with a
philosophy of peace has perished by the
gun."
It said, "The silly but mainly harmless
mob hysteria which followed the Beatles
round the world in the '6os has now, in
the streets of New York in 1980, a sequel
in which . some kind of perverted
autograph-hunting has turned into
murder."
Lawyers face
for Abscam
WASHINGTON (UPI) A handful
of Justice Department lawyers has
been warned they may be disciplined
perhaps fired for news leaks
about Abscam and other undercover
FBI probes, Deputy Attorney
General Charles Renfrew said
yesterday.
Renfrew said he has sent letters to
fewer than a half-dozen prosecutors
giving them a chance to answer
allegations that they broke depart
ment rules in leaking information
about the investigations.
It is possible that some of those in
volved could face dismissal, Renfrew
said, but stressed he first wants to
hear the lawyers' defenses and
whether there were mitigating
circumstances.
Those implicated in the leaks were
indentified after a massive, costly in
vestigation of the disclosures last
February that prematurely ended the
Abscam probe in which eight
members of Congress were
implicated.
Renfrew said he has met with some
of the accused lawyers and hopes the
matter can be concluded in two or
three weeks.
The splash of Abscam publicity so
angered Attorney General Benjamin
Civiletti that he ordered an extensive
investigation. The probe later was ex
panded to include leaks about the
undercover projects called "Brilab"
amd "Pendorf."
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leaks
The leak investigation costing at
least $750,000 and involving nearly 40
investigators including an FBI team
that looked into possible miscondUct
by bureau agents was supervised
by U.S. Attorney Richard Blumenthal
of Connecticut. '
Sources have - said Blumenthal's
report frequently relies on cir
cumstantial evidence and intuition to
pinpoint probable leakers. FBI Direc
tor William Webster, who would mete
out punishment to bureau agents, told
reporters recently the investigatiowl
left a number of question 47)
unanswered. , 4
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"I am exacting a high standard of)
proof" in determining whether t
hand out discipline, Renfrew saiit
citing the effect on employee h 4
careers.
"It has to be treated very carefully
very sensitively," he said.
Sodrces have indicated that ex7l
ecutive assistant FBLDirector
cis M. Mullen Jr., assistant bureatk
director Oliver Revell and Sean Mc ,- Ir
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Weeney, head 'of the bureau's:
organized crime unit, and a numbeif
of agents were asked to take,
polygraph tests in connection with the,
leak probe.
Last spring, Civiletti said art,
adverse inference could be drawn JO
Justice or FBI employees refused to ,
submit to polygraph examinations bei ,
performed poorly on the tests.
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