UNSOUND TREES ON PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19862, 25 February 1930, Page 13

UNSOUND TREES ON PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.

TO THE EDITOR Or THE PRFSS g ir A startling experience that wsterday- befel sol "° lnotorists > of rtom I was one, may be recorded as emphasising the need tor occasional examination of trees, especially when Lent to the public highway Iwo " rs were passing down a well-used road not many miles from ClinstLch, in the evening, one car being about 100 yards ahead of the other. Between the passing of the first ear md the approach of the second a big tr tree on a, farm abutting 011 the toad came down with a crash, breaking .jabout eight feet from the ground, tompletely blocking the roadway and mashing itself into a number of pieces, is the second car -was only about 25 yards away as the tree fell, a ,t'e\v seconds either way and one of other ,{the cars would hare been wrecked, jnd the occupants killed or seriously I injured. j On examination the tree proved to be rotten and there was 110 wind at Hie time :to bring about its collapse. One would imagine that a farmer lonld examine his trees now and then to'see that their condition was not a potential danger to passers-by.— MOTORIST. Christchurch, February 24th.