SPEEDING MOTORISTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18548, 25 November 1925, Page 5

SPEEDING MOTORISTS.

UNITED BURGESSES ALARMED. ( " i LIGHT PENALTIES CRITICISED. I ■■ Motorists came in for some very adverse criticism at last night's meeting of the Council of the United Burgesses' Association. The secretary read a "letter from the police officials stating that'it was impossible to - catch every speeding motorist. Colonel Loach said that the onus was, to a great extent, on the ordinary citizen, who should note every case of speeding he saw and report it. He .■instanced several cases of speeding he had seen. Mr P. Hennessy said that the drunken motorist was sent to gaol. The man who drove along the street at 45 miles an hour was in a sense intoxicated. "Gone Back On It." The chairman (Mr JR. B. Dalley) : Some time ago it was stated in the papers that Magistrates would send the drunken motorist to gaol, bub J. have road of cases lately where that has not been done. Why have they gone back on it? The police do not seem to get the support from the Bench that they should. It seems, iu the eyes of some Magistrates, a more heinous offence ,to ride a bicycle at night without a. light than to drive a motor lightless at night. He had read of a motorist being fined 10s and a cyclist £l. • Courtesy. "Two ladies were walking in a narrow street tire other day?' said the chairman, "and I saw a'motorist de- j liberately swerve across the road to I where there were a lot of pot-holes ] full of water. The motorist splashed I both .ladies all over with muddy water. I would not hesitate to pick up a I stone and send it through the windscreen of a motorist 'doing that sort of thing!" After further discussion, it was decided that it be a recommendation to each affiliated Association to appoint a Vigilance Committee for the detection of speeding motorists and other by-law breakers. : The secretary, Mr H. 0. fiourlav. referred to the noise made bv buses in the Square and elsewhere, and stated that a deaf of annoyance had been caused. "I f ] o n-'t see whv the City by-laws should be flouted like that," he concluded. The Vigilance Committee was in, strncted to take notice of this' nuisance.