MOTORISTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19032, 21 June 1927, Page 13

MOTORISTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS.

10 THB EDITOa 07 THIS TBESS. Sir—Will you permit mc through your valuable columns to ventilate a grievance 1 have with regard to the fine imposed'upon mc for passing a policeman without noticing his signal to stop. This is it: 1 quite agree as to tin: justice of a line ior parsing a policeman's signal to stop, but what I wMi to siv is thfit he should have made me see it. 1 have a fair ONpcnence of driving in large towns, and in none of them do the police allow the motorist to sin unconsciously in tills manner. If lie fails to stop when ordered, the policeman usually snouts or makes Ins presence known in some wav, and having stopped the car takes tlio name number, and address if lie thinks fit. In my case there were two of us in the car and wc must have passed only a tew fret from the policeman in question so that lie could easily have enforced his signal. As it was, I knew nothing of my crime until me days later, when a policeman stopped' me, told me of my misdeed, and took a deposition. Three days later, at 6.45 p.m., I received a summons to appear iii Court on the following day at 10 a.m. This left me no time for any consideration or advice. If, as I nave been told, this is the. usual proceeding in New Zealand, surely a little alteration could only be an improvement. Yours, etc.. , WINIFRED REYIsOLD<>.