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How a trip to the pub made the world's roads safer

In 1934, the late Percy Shaw almost crashed while driving home from the pub on a foggy night in West Yorkshire, in England.

He was saved when his headlights were reflected in the eyes of a cat and it gave him a brilliant idea. He invented reflective studs for the road and called them cat鈥檚 eyes.

Percy's great-niece, Glenda Shaw remembers the eccentric inventor.

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