SAFETY FIRST.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19972, 5 July 1930, Page 24

SAFETY FIRST.

DUTIES OF PEDESTRIANS. Few people (says the "Light Car") will disagree with a remark made recently by Mr H. R. Oswald, a West London coroner, who said, ft \ do not think there is anv need for a separate organisation of pedestrians. If pedestrians will only co-operate with other road users. using; due care themselves and observing the rules of the road, more good will be done than by creating bad feeling between different sections of the public." This is only too true. One. section of the community will not tolerate in. terference on the part of another section. and when it comes to a problem like "safety first." concerted action--lombinmg the efforts of all who walk, motor, cycle, or drive horsed-vehiclea-is the onlv solution It is all the more encouraging, therefore, to observe that one of the conditions bf membership of the newly formed Light Car Sub ?• the signing of the safe-driving d£ clnration of the Road Fellowship League—a body which embraces al? classeS of road user and asks them to work for the common good. The signing of a declaration of this not an admission that any one of +h« narties. whether thev travel -W. »»' f »»" "'t ""ir," worthv endeavour to show their wiK ness to associate themselves with * practical effort to _make road trave! safer. _ Good work, is airpark tiainw done tn the cause of "safety first" hv rJKj ,or tSTWs of road patrols and so on—and anrmilm Sn,. W ° rt Ca ° U