LIGHTLESS CYCLISTS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18636, 10 March 1926, Page 11

LIGHTLESS CYCLISTS.

♦ ■■ -, DANGER FROM FIRE ENGINE. A great deal of danger, when a fire engine is proceeding fo a fire, is caused by the large number of cyclists and others whom the sound of the siren j draws like a magnet. • | The secretary, to the Christchurch Fire Board wrote to the Superintendent of Police, stating • that on a recent occasion when the Brigade was proceeding along Ferry road in response to a street, alarm call, several cycles without lights passed. This practice of riding after . dark without lights was becoming prevalent, and constituted a great danger to the public arid to vehicular traffic on the road. The Superintendent of the.Brigade considered it necessary to point out that with fast travelling motors, the cyclists stood every chance of meeting with serious accidents through their own neglect and carelessness. '"• »" The Superintendent of Police replied that the question was receiving'constant attention at the hands of the police. With a limited staff, and multifarious duties, it was.a matter of impossibility to cive the matter the attention it probablv merited. But they were doing their best.