TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21865, 19 August 1936, Page 7

TRAFFIC OFFENCES

TO THE EDITOB 0» THE PBESS. ' , Sir,—With all that is written and said' about safety of the roads, it is disappointing, to find that out of 39 traffic cases dealt with at yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court, only four involved speeding and dangerous driving. Surely it is speeding and dangerous driving that levy the toll. Parking breaches never injured or killed anyone and yet this is -the type of offence'upon which the traffic inspectors appear to concentrate their efforts. Speed limits could be rigidly enforced and dangerous driving minimised by right action on the part of the authorities. The present practice of posting a uniformed traffic inspector and his motor-cycle at' the side of a roadway, is futile. Drivers can usually sight the combination some distance away and have ample time in which to amend their driving. On the other -hand, if an observer in an ordinary car drove along at the limit speeds and noted the numbers of all cars passing him, I venture to say that the corrective effect would be most marked.* Few offences, of any kind are committed under the eyes of authority. Why then all traffic inspectors in full regalia? The end. justifies the means. Whilst recently four were caught, probably 400 got away with it.—Yours, etc., SAFE ROADS. August 18, 1936.