Thursday, March 15, 2018

Wouldn't it be great if cities or states still gave out awards to the safest drivers? Back in 1936 Mrs. Nell Leavitt of San Francisco was the state’s safest driver, with 650k miles completed


the director of the DMV himself gave her the award, recognizing that Nell Leavitt definitely deserved the honor in California: no recorded accidents or violations in a 34-year-old driving record, much of it in the days of poor roads, horse-drawn wagons, few signals or traffic controls.

at the time of this award, she’d owned 21 different makes of car between her first, a 1902 model she described as a “‘one lung’ red roadster, with tiller control and chain drive” and this Dodge

http://www.outsidelands.org/safest-driver.php

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