PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
S.I.M.U. Seeks Change In Regulations
“The Transport Department will be requested to amend existing regulations to abrogate the absolute right pedestrians now possess in their use of pedestrian crossings,” according to a motion carried yesterday by the South Island Motor Union conference.
There was a need for better understanding of the rights of both motorists and pedestrians at these crossings; but the plain fact was that the motorist-was unduly legislated against, said Mr T. E. V. Turpin (Otago). Present regulations throw the total responsibility on the motorist, and it was seldom that a pedestrian was haled before the courts, said Mr W. J. Mclnnes (Otago). It was not quite so bad as that, said Mr Robert Wilson (South Canterbury). The Road Code showed that pedestrians had absolute right only on their own half of the crossing and were urged to use sense. Mr Turpin Said every motorist knew of many occasions when he would have stopped for an hour if he had not barged through pedestrians who failed to give motor traffic a chance.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28702, 27 September 1958, Page 16
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