MOTOR FATALITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1923, Page 3

MOTOR FATALITIES.

TOO MANY IN SYDNEY. i GOVER_Nin.N-T ACTIOX. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 2. ; Hardly a week passes without a seri- j ( ous motor accident, often with faAal restilts, being recorded in Sydney, and the position lias become so alarming that the State Government, is to take action to see that accidents are reduced to a minimum. j, Special patrols are to be placed on to t the roads to watch for motorists ex- I ceedim? the speed limit and reckless. drivers. During last week-end the State 'd Treasurer (Sir Arthur Cocks) motored t: over one of the main highways, and he \Tsays that what he saw tilled" him with C tear for the lives of pedestrians. "Day after day and week after week," I he said, -'there is an accumulating list! of motor accidents. And from mv olwer- j vation as a passenger in motor cars one I twentieth of the accidents are never 1 reported. The marvel to mc is that l there are not more fatal mishap.. 1 #cc j hoys not old enough to have a license ] driving motors, and this is a fruitful I cause of accidents. "The regulation in regard to 'tooting' i a warning in going around a blind cor- | ncr in 90 per cent of the cases is dis- \ regarded by drivers, and the common- i sense course of blowing the horn when coming to the top of a rise, on the other 1 side of which nothing can be seen, is 1 adopted in about 1 per cent of the t cases." ( Sir Arthur Cocks intends to move for I i legislation to introduce reforms which i i : will bring about better supervision of I : Sydney's motor traffic. | < ; I;