MOTORISTS' LIABILITIES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18634, 8 March 1926, Page 11

MOTORISTS' LIABILITIES.

t, 10 THB SDITOB OF "THE PREBS." iK.-JYhe daily record of accidents the agency of motor-cars and j&or-cycfes, inspires me, as a pedesto protest against the regi^raan J users of these machines ' Sftont » condition that such license VmO ti>9 strcetß or * neae vehicles £ conditional on every car carrying an jLisne* of sufficient amount to enjj~ that reasonable compensation be "unliable by thoso who are maimed or, frjkj-depcndants of those who are gLtithrough unskilled, or negligent, tLUj, or accident. With callous fMthi lot both sexes), nervous and inJSpetent persons, drivers tired, sleepilk or drunk, plus the speed fiend, the Qatrian leads a life full of daily sjj»in all streets, and - at all houls. Hh* no * mTlen consolation to the hay© some small sum of assist him in his disablement, can any sumjcomponsate for the Sfl-'of parents or children, but it is '(Sjreivable that persons who are in Imv? cases unable even to pay for 4J'(»rs they run should have licenses onr streets, to the risk of If* and limb of every pedestrian, and ' jWH>e another, without .any assurance * jftjflfording any compensation whatwffw *^ e sunterers occasion 'tfitogh negligence or incompetence. ' should, in my opinion, be or'ear or cycle registered, withvfflN"* accompanying paid up policy (Sjjtsafeeing a requisite sum for aecid3M»'* P o ***? with the.amount deunder the Employers' Liability Act.—Tours, etc, ?*' H, HOBDAY.