ROAD RISKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 5

ROAD RISKS.

BAKGERS OF NIGHT DRIVING. \ "You wouldn't catch me walking on a traffic highway on the left-hand side of the road at night," said a Wellington traffic policeman. "Do you have much trouble with dazzling headlights?" he was asked. "Oh, we are always on the look out for them, but the trouble often is to get . a conviction," he replied. "As long as the main beam of the light is according to regulations it makes no difference if the reflectors and the glass fronts make a glare. They are within the law as it stands. You won't-get rid of dazzle ! lights till the regulation is altered. As i things are, some lights with their main j beams all right are as bad as they were before. I "I remember driving a car not long ago when I met a car with lamps like that, and T nearly killed a cyclist. Ye*, they should be on the right-hand side too* I'd take that side myself if I were riding a bike. The rear reflectors are useless, for unless they are pitched at the right angle they don't reflect at all. Cyclists should carry rear axle lights. As for white-painted rear mudguards, half the time the rider's overcoat is over the mark." . i