CHILDREN’S CYCLES
PARENTS FINED FOR FAULTY BRAKES (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, August 28. The police in Norfolk have now decided to prosecute parents in all cases where the brakes on children’s bicycles have been proved inefficient. Two fathers already have been fined 15s and 10s respectively. The county police chief, Superintendent William Carver, said that when the regulations came out a year ago offending parents were only cautioned. “Now, however, we will prosecute in the hope of bringing home to parents that a child who cannot stop his bicycle may be a dead child very soon. It is not a matter of being overzealous about petty regulations. “It is a matter of saving life on the roads. Children are often unstable on their bicycles anyway. It is up to parents to make them as safe as they can.”
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27750, 30 August 1955, Page 6
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