- [Matthews sticks a pin in a map at the location of a fatal accident]
- Dan Mathews: Eight major accidents in two weeks on a brand new stretch of highway. Come on over here and look at this with me. Right here, from the end of the divided highway all the way to the end of the cutoff at Overland City - in two weeks we've had four fatals, seven injuries and fourteen or fifteen fender benders. If this keeps up, we're going to run out of people before we run out of pins!
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- Narrator: Crimes of violence add a serious note to the routine functions of the Highway Patrol. The Patrol moves quickly to aid victims, to apprehend a killer. But in many cases the victims are beyond aid, and the killer is beyond apprehension. In too many cases the killer is an average respectable citizen, and his murder weapon is triggered by a steering wheel. The Highway Patrol wages a ceaseless campaign to prevent this kind of crime.
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- Officer Gus Johnson: Poor guy. He's still got that traffic court to face.
- Dan Mathews: Yeah. But he's already had his punishment. He's got a lifetime sentence of livin' with himself.
- Broderick Crawford: [frequently used sign off line] Next week's case handled by the Highway patrol is a very exciting one. We hope you'll be with us. Until then remember, the careless driver isn't driving his car, he's aiming it! This is Broderick Crawford saying see you next week.