Crossing the Street in the 1880s       You are standing on a street corner in a city. Vehicles are racing by you. Some ofthem are out of (37) because many drivers do not pay attention to people trying to getacross the street, so many walkers are (38) to step off the sidewalk. Sometimeswalkers got hurt or even killed by trains in the middle of town.       You could see this frightening (39) every day—130 years ago. In the 1880s,crossing a city street posed an even more gigantic risk (40) it is today. City streetswere full of horse-drawn carriages. There were no (41) lights or stop signs. Manydrivers were careless and did not (42) speed laws. They raced through town(43) top speed. They often whipped their horses to make them go faster, so theterrified horses sometimes would become (44) and run over walkers.       Carriages were not the only dangers on the street. Trains also ran through the middleof most cities, and this (45) the problem of crossing a street. Frequently trains wouldcrash into carriages or people.      Compared to long ago, our safety laws today have (46) us a giant step forward incrossing the street.
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