ROAD SAFETY
Sir,—Your leading article, “The Road Safety Game,” pinpoints the weakness in accident prevention measures and gives a lead .in tackling the problem of road safety. The rules of the road should be sacrosanct, admit of no deviation through individ-* ual opinion, and apply everywhere. Thus a motorist caught cutting a corner in a remote backblocks district would receive an equal penalty as one in a busy area. Every officer would be a “secret” one with first-class equipment, preferably photographic, for quick, sure convictions. This would change the present underlying “sporting chance” philosophy to one of “instinctive carefulness.” Tough measures; but a mass of blood and twisted steel/ds a tough proposition, bringing distress into a wide circle.— Yours, etc., SAFETY. Mayfield, June 6, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27369, 7 June 1954, Page 2
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