DANGER ON THE ROAD.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 308, 11 January 1912, Page 6

DANGER ON THE ROAD.

The cyclist without a light is not the only menaoe to public safety on our roads. If he rides at night with only a dim light shining in front and none at the back, he really invites an acci-: dent and. is a danger to himself and. to everybody who is likely to overtake him. Necessity, however, is the mother of invention and a very simple remedy for preventing an accident of such a kind as this has been invented. Many people may have fallen into an error on seeing the little light which suddenly appears at the back of a bicycle as a motor car with its powerful lamps lighted approaches from the rear. The light that we see comes not from the lamp of the cyclist, but from the lamp of the motor car. The cyclist carries on the back part of his bicycle a little red "bulkseye," but this has no light of its own. The rays from the motor lamp are thrown upon the-red glass and light it up, so that for the moment the biillseye is a glowing warning to the driver of the car that there is a cyclist in the dark ahead of him. The invention is an excellent one, and one of the motoring associations, in order to popularise the idea, has given away ten thousand of these lamps to cyclists. But the cvclist is not alone in folly of this kind.' Carts crawl about country roads showing no light at the back, so that they cannot be distinguished from the grey "of the roads along which they travel, and arc therefore in danger of being run down by faster vehicles com-, ing up behind. The wise rule for carrying lights at night on the back of vehicles is imposed in some places. It should be compulsory everywhere and no vehicle allowed on the roads at night without lights at' the back as well as in the front.