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Page 2 - October 22, 1984 Dateline THE GAMECOCK I
Teenage bu
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Associated Press
COLUMBIA ? David Gale
bus driver because at $3.47 an
old job as a supermarket b
convenient.
Gale's day as a driver for 1
and a senior at lower Richland
bia begins at 6:50 a.m. and er
"When 1 worked at a supern
at 4," said Gale, who is 17. 441'
have to do mv homework."
THE PAY, the hours and t
reasons why teen-age drivers
Carolina for the last 30 years.
Student drivers account for
share of accidents, but South C
convinced student drivers are ;
"At the time we certify ther
operate the bus safely,' said CI
driver trianing and safety fo
Education.
"They don't always practic
like you and I don't always
should," he said.
IN SOl'TIl 71 percent of th
were students. They were invol
accidents reported.
Since the school year bej
Carolina's drives have repork
with 125 for the same period 1
But several recent sensatio
tracted widespread media cov
cerns about teen-age drivers.
On Sept. 1 7, a total of 33 stm
injuries after a bus driven by
Clearwater, a community just
driver was found to be not at
THREE DAYS later, a bu
overturned in Columbia, rcsull
students. The driver was charge
conditions.
The most serious accident in
cured Sept. 4 near Florence wh
adult collided with two cars ai
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Alabama, Oklahoma, Arka
Virginia also have employed <
dent school bus drivers, accoi
National Highway Traffic Saf
The number of student dr
from less than 1 percent of tl
about 5 percent of the 5,1
Mississippi.
STUDENT DRIVERS arc
Carolinas, where the states
system. South Carolina drive
hours a month, Nix said.
in [North C arolina, >5 pcrct
year were students and they w
the 1,246 accidents reported.
North Carolina drivers mus
in $200 or more property dan
ding to norfleet Gardner of N
Education. But South Carol
every scrape and dent. Mix s;
During the '50s and before,
adequately trained and tho
said. "Their record was ex
didn't get away with parking
Soule conducted a study of
using data from 1969 throug
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cent of the drivers were stud
percent of the accidents.
"There was insufficient d;
overrepresented in the accidei
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s drivers pp
f attention |
decided to become a school
hour it paid better than his
agger and the hours were
Richaland School District 1
, high School in cast Colum- V
larket I'd have to be at work
d get home late and then I'd
he convenience are three big |i
' more than their statistical
Carolina officials say they're
as safe as adult drivers.
n we are confident they can
[iff Nix, assistant director of v >
>r the state Department of
we know
e 6,500 bus drivers last year f ,
Ived in 80 percent of the 939
tan in mid-August, South
?d 120 accidents, compared
ast year. ft*ll%SB8fl|B|
nal bus accidents have aterage
and raised new condents
were treated for minor SHlDS ?
a 16-year-old overturned in
east of Augusta, Ga. The Lake Mui
fault. participant
s driven by an 18-year-old R I A
ting in minor injuries for 23 l\| t\
;d with traveling too fast for |
i;aH on irinit rlri\/nr It a^_ . . > M
Y"" ?i .?v.. wv Associated r
en a school van driven by an
[ an intersection, killing two
of (he cars. dam? air wa:
nsas, Iowa, Mississippi and evening wne
\ significant number of stu- u
ding to David Soule of the m "anc*ety
Administration. ^ plante<
ivers in those states ranges a launchei
le 10,421 drivers in iowa to slow, looptn
100 daily route drivers in 'cw seconc^s
"You dor
You just thr
used most extensively in the Per launch
own and operate the bus invention.
:rs put in an average of 66 l'le ;
and the pi
:nt of the 12,825 drivers last caught a th
ere involved in 65 percent of 'n^ warm a'1
Still, Locke
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rtage or bodily injury, accor- n,ne yearsorth
Carolina Department of
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ina bus drivers must report
and then st<
, student drivers were sleeted, ' .n\ mt(
roughly supervised," Soule explaining
eeptionally good. The kids gliding led
on a vellow line." ^ '1C to^ ^
a hard plasi
student divers' safety record a pj|ot
h 1979 from the eight states pearance ol
. He found that while 22 perlents,
they accounted for 35 "I've Inc.
looks wind I
ua to determine why the're j|la( gOCS j,
nt picture," he said. jQ prott
J patented it
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RNWALL, Conn.?The Windseeker.
s cooling with the onset of
n Tim Locke rushed out SOON, THE public
3r with his small invention test the glider itself.
Locke and his part
d his feet in the thick crass mann. have formed Wi
d the toy hang glider on a and have overseen the
g flight that ended after a tion of 30,000 gliders
with a gentle landing. their distributors will sc
i't have to really wang it. corporation's first
ow it," he said of the pro- NASA, which bought <
ling technique for his to sell at its Washing
shop. Another 48 have
air been hotter,* the foam New England Air Musi
lastic glider might have Locks.
lermal" ? or a rush of ris- The sales have been 1
? and flown for minutes. what has been a
was pleased with the flight frustrating business
lat he has tinkered with for Locke and Hermann.
experience that has le
confident of their ov
SKI) it into the air again, wary of others,
aod fascinated.
> all wind sports, he said "We had a lot
that his devotion to hang Thomases along the
to his toy development. almost the fuel to driv<
as a 14-inch foam wing and Locke said. "We bel
lie balancing weight shaped persisted, the persist*
that together give it the ap- off."
f a miniature hang glider. Their troubles start*
l.ocke began working
1 many different designs. It "1 HAI) this brai
ess simple, but there's a lot struct a toy flying han
no it," Locke said. said, explaining that h
ret the design, Locke has model that same day f
in the United States, West had at his morne in Wi
le Alexand
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all classes of boats. The two-da^
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inder the name then too
show it t
"The i
will be able to totvpe at
special t<
ner, Carl Her- Falls Vil
indseeker Corp. As Lc
recent produc- design,
that they and business
;11. The year-old a comps
customer was Herman
48 of the gliders necessar
>ton, D.C. gift The t\
been sold to the satisfied
cum in Windsor pany an
sales. T1
[he high point in be inten
difficult and gamble
experience for logger b
It has been an Herman
ft the two more
ill abilities, but KVi^
contract
deal wa
T Hmiht inn t rn
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way. That was decided
? us on further," and sell
ieved that it" we "We
.Mice would pay for this
of the r
I'd in 1975 when own. "
on the glider. we put
nstorin to con- Will
g glider," Locke stockho
e built a working glider's
rom materials he compan
est Cornwall. He glider.
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I event drew a total of 59 |
customer
k the glider to Hermann to
o his boyhood friend. *
moment he threw the first prome,
I knew we had something
3 work on," said Hermann, a
lage resident.
)cke set out to improve nis
hermann took over the
chores, such as trying to find
my willing to buy the glider,
n also set out to gain the
y patents.
vo first thought they would be
selling the patent to a comd
receiving royalties from its
ley found many companies to
ested, but unwilling to take a
on the 30-year-old Locke, a
iy profession, and 29-year-old
n, a graphic artist.
xTIJALLY, THEY did reach a
with one company, but that
s cancelled Inst venr. The two
thought their strategy, and
to form their own eorporation
stock among their friends,
realized no one has the energy
like we have," Hermann said
eason for striking out on their
You can't calculate the hours
into this."
i the support of their
Ides, the two finalized the
design, and found three small
lies to make and package the
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: fiaintijit. teac/if to adafil
ie of our talented
its today ?
Ion Vernon Wells
ir Terry Huskey
idem ? owner
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