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College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 25, 1961
THE BATTALION BRY AN’S WYNN WILLIAMS
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By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion News Editor
He is a tall man with a wide
grin, a brown uniform and a
badge. For six days a week High
way Patrolman Wynn Williams
spends over 12 grueling hours a
day at the wheel of his car.
His car, white with two whip
aerials, an outline of the State of
Texas painted on the doors and
sporting a red spotlight, is as im
pressive as his work record. Wil
liams made over 830 arrests and
gave more than 2,400 warnings to
erring motorists during the past
year.
He motioned me to get in and I
began seeing firsthand how the
Highway Patrol performed its
mission in Brazos County.
The mission? Simple, to keep
people from killing themselves, or
others, while they are driving.
Wynn Williams In Unit 6240
. checks speed of oncoming car with radar
“The trouble is, most people fig
ure they are never going to be in
volved in an accident,” Williams
said as we began to head east from
Bryan on State Highway 21. “They
think traffic safety is fine for
everyone else. It’s hard to make
them realize that one little bit of
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carelessness is all that is need
ed,” he added.
I asked him what his genei’al
plan of operation was for the day.
“We patrol the roads where we
have the most accidents,” he said.
“First we’ll go east and then later
on we’ll work west of town.”
I now turned my attention to the
box on the seat between us. It
had a meter and several knobs and
switches on its face.
The radar sets used by the Pa
trol are responsible for 30 to 50
per cent of all their speeding ar
rests, I had learned earlier.
“Radar has done more to slow
people down than just about any
thing else,” Sgt. O. L. Luther of
the Bryan office had told me be
fore I left with Williams.
There are two radar sets op
erated by Sgt. Luther’s men. One
is the familiar type, usually
mounted on a tripod, that utilizes
a “radar” car and a “catch” car.
The other kind is contained in one
car and can pick up vehicles go
ing in either direction. All the
driver of the patrol car has to do
is turn around and catch the speed
er.
Williams’ car was equipped with
the new, compact type of unit. The
main part fit on the front seat,
with the antenna attached to the
driver’s side window and the cig
arette lighter socket supplying
the power.
It wasn’t long before we had
our first customer. The patrolman
whipped his automobile to the side
of the road and as the on coming
vehicle broke the radar beam the
needle on the speed indicator reg
istered 80.
Although by the time Williams
turned the car around to give chase
the speeder had slowed to the legal
limit, he had been clocked.
Unfair ?
“When you realize that speed is
the number one killer on the high-
ways, it doesn’t seem quite so un
fair,” the lanky patrolman said.
Day turned to night and then
morning. It was past 3 a.m. when
Williams let me out of the car. He
had shown me how he and others
like him help prevent what the
Department of Public Safety terms
motorcide: the killing of another
human being or of one’s self
through the operation of a motor
vehicle—usually the result of neg
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