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Thank you so much for your support. All right, well, we're going to have another episode of

Suspense based on an indictment script. The original air date is January 31, 1960, and the title is

End of the Road. And now another tale well calculated to keep you in.

In a moment, End of the Road, written for Radio by Alan Sloan from a story by Elisir Lipski.

Back in pioneer days, they used to talk about the quick in the dead. The idea used to be the

quick survived and the slowpoke stopped an arrow. Well, today things have changed. On America's

highways, it's often the quick who are the dead. Haste makes considerably worse than waste,

as highway fatality statistics grimly prove. Most highway deaths come from excessive speed and

cutting out of line. It's possible to be killed by making a target of your car as well. It's

possible to get into trouble by having a mechanically imperfect car. There are all sorts of dangers involved

in piloting one of today's high speed automobiles, but hundreds of thousands of drivers of all ages

are proving that it's also possible to have an accident-clean record. Alertness, politeness,

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