"DUE TO CARELESSNESS"
LEVEL-CROSSING ACCIDENTS. MOTORIST'S OPXTTCOX. MISADVENTURE RARELY THI CAUSE. fPr 7>l«;rai>ti.—Own Orrr*,"" ;]?-;.> CHBISTCHURCH. this day. -■Ninety per cent of aecidents at level crossings are due to the careles.Mießf o: motoric, aa.i the other ton per cent to misadventure/' -aid Mr. F. W. .Tohnstw at. a meeting of the executive of the >"tnh Island Motor Union. -The average human bcin- wae r -, made to drive a motor car or flv an aeroplane," he added. "It will I* t»o or three generations before we have people able to meet their obligations a~ motorists.** Mr. F. \V. Freeman said that at the busier if one took snv notice of the bells one would never ? ct home Sometimes when the bells were ringintho motorist did not know whether the tram had passed or not. That sort of thing tended to make motorists carele«
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 33, 8 February 1929, Page 3
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