STEERING WHEEL IN MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
-0 TH3 EDITCr. OT THE FF-Ebj. sir-Your motoring columns are usui!lv filled Tritli sound teaching, bus '.his morning there is & picco oi pe.sieious and dangerous advice: "Don*t grip the steering wheel." Now slack i rades go with a slack mind, and at tie steering 'wheel of a car is most emphtiecll? not the place for relaxation. Twite I have had a tyre burst at SO j ailes an hour, and on each occasion j •l«e tras no difficulty in steering to tie lid® of the road and stopping. There fill not be many replies to this letter ! turn don't-grip-the-wheel motorists wlio J Live had similar experiences, because | tie inquests on most of them are conMed. Moreoyer, a slack hold on the itKiing-ivheel is responsible for most c! :he accidents due to skidding on ilhjle roads. » j It mold eliminate a largo percentage ; «t ittitetir if every steering-wheel *e»(mtiueted on the principle of a : ejMMßtter similar to the ''dsa'l j an'i toji3l»" used on some electric teUM «j$ 4»-man trams, so that if tie grip as fite wheel relaxed below, »*, 35 earn, it would illuminate a waipiesoni indicator and the motorist srcald bt liable to conviction i'or dupwa driving.—Tours, etc., I D. E. CURRIE. *1 August 14th, 1931. j
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20316, 15 August 1931, Page 21
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