![]() “Even the trim MPs stationed at each side of the speaker’s platform were startled out of their impassive rigidity. Setting aside his prepared speech, Truman launched into the “most vehement and vitriolic attack on reckless driving ever delivered by a high government official,” said “Public Safety” magazine. In his opening speech, Truman decried the slaughter on the highways and called for the enactment of laws dictating the qualifications of drivers. ![]() He convened a Highway Safety Conference in May of 1946, gathering together in Washington 2,000 officials whose jobs involved transportation and traffic safety. President Harry Truman was having none of it. ![]() Primitive roads, unsafe vehicles and unqualified drivers spell an explosion in traffic deaths on American highways - 33,500 people were killed in the year following war’s end. But trouble erupts almost immediately in the postwar paradise. The year is 1946 and Americans are relishing life without war, jumping into a society that offers anyone with a little money the opportunity to drive a car. Girls and boys were asked to sign a safe driving agreement with their dads
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