FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 6

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

CONCRETE AND SPEED. TWO MAIN FACTORS. Regarding tlio connexion between motor aocidents and roads reconstructed in concrete, Mr J. S. Hawkos. secretary of the C.A.A., who attended the recent conference regarding motor accidents, states that on a fifteen miles' stretch of concrete rood south of Auckland 110 fewer than nine fatal accidents have occurred; while on a stretch, further south, there have been two. fatal accidents. The deduction drawn from, these facts, according to Mr Hawkes, is that concrete reconstruction and speed wero factors in the fatalities. As regards speed limits. Mr Hawkes says that Mr A. Tyndall, engineer to tho Highways Board, demonstrated to those who attended tho conferenoe that it was in the best interests of motorists that the speed limit should not be too high That demonstration showed that high eds reduce the life of the roads for which the motorists have paid. In other words, above a certain speed the wear and tear on roads becomes an important factor; so that the motorist, in his own interest, should welcome a reasonable epoed limit.