RIGHT-HAND RULE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25274, 28 August 1947, Page 5

RIGHT-HAND RULE

Sir,—Discussing the “give way to the right” rule, I asked a motorist what would happen if four cars, approaching from the four different directions, arrived on the intersection at the same time. He said that if they. were stubborn they would stop there until the traffic inspector came. I then asked what would happen if all four I wished to turn to the right. He admitted that that complicated the matter. Now. with the English rule “give way to the left,” each would proceed to the crown of the road and find that he could pass behind the. car from the left, then all four could turn to the right. This rule also stops "barging across” mentioned by one of our local traffic inspectors. “C.M.” would understand this. What would be “T.A.S.’s’’ explanation or that of the traffic authorities?—Yours, etc., G.W. August 25, 1947. ' [There was no clause in the traffic regulations to cover this situation, said the senior traffic inspector (Mr G. P. Keller) when this letter was referred to him. The only light he could throy on the subject was the comment that in cases of this type “courtesy would prevail” which was made by the chairman of a commission set up to investigate the right-hand rule some years ago.]