Episode Closings
Similar to another contemporary ZIV Television program, Sea Hunt, each episode ended with a thank-you from the star for watching and an invitation to view again next week. Highway Patrol's style was different, however, in that Crawford would deliver an aphoristic comment on traffic safety, including these:
- The laws of your community are enforced for your protection ... obey them!
- Leave your blood at the Red Cross, not on the highway !
- Leave your blood at the Red Cross, or your community blood bank, not on the highway !
- The careless driver isn't driving his car, he's aiming it!
- It isn't the car that kills, it's the driver!
- No matter how new, the safest device in your car is you!
- It isn't what you drive, but how you drive that counts!
- The clowns at the circus, they're real funny, but on the highway they're murder!
- Reckless driving doesn't determine who's right, only who's left!
- If you care to drive, drive with care!
- Try to be as good a driver as you think you are!
The style of these closings evolved slightly over time. In early episodes, Crawford promised next week's viewers a "different", "unusual", or "exciting" case; toward the end of the series this verbiage was dropped.
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