MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
WHAT STATISTICS REVEAL.
(To the Editor.)
Motor accidents still increase. It is a wonder there are not more. The following are the court convictions taken from Government publications for the last six years; I have left out odd numbers. Drunk in charge of motor vehicles, 2200; excessive speed, 10,000; driving to the danger of the public, 17,000travelling without lights or without rear lights, 20,000. There were several thousand in!nor offences. In addition to these, only last year over 19,000 motor vehicles were found with badly-worn brakes or other defects, making them a danger to the public. Only about one offender in a dozen gets caught; for instance, some years ago I was staying in Taranaki. There were numerous com" plaints of the speed of motorists through Stratford, Eltham and Kaponga. The fewresident police had plenty to do 'besides watch the main roads, so one day the authorities sent up half a dozen plain-clothes police and posted them 011 the main road. From midday Saturday to dark on Sunday they caught and got fined 217 motorists for excessive speed or driving to the danger of the-public. Before that the weekly capture was about half a dozen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 8
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