Road Safety

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 10

Road Safety

Sir, —May I suggest that one way to help eliminate the accident toll on the open road would be to seal the roads to the grass verge? When going round a corner it is easy to misjudge and get into difficulties in the shingle. Sealing the full width would also encourage slow drivers to keep to the left, whereas now they refuse perhaps with reason, to drive out in the dust, and many drivers attempt risky overtaking. How often we drive round, particularly at the week-end, and get behind a well-polished car cruising at 25 to 30 m.p.h. while sight-seeing. This would be expensive, I know, but maintenance costs would be reduced and the grader, a necessary obstacle, would be gone. Nearly all rural areas of England and the Continent are thus sealed.—Yours, etc., COUNTRY DRIVER. July 15, 1965. Sir, —There are traffic police to supervise drivers. Why not have inspectors for roads and road signs? I live about 20 miles from Christchurch, and 1 am shocked at the “potholes” that appear regularly after rain. It seems to me that those responsible fill up these holes with tar and sand, and the first heavy shower washes it away. Painted white lines, and words such as “caution,” etc., are obliterated for a long time before they are repainted.—-Yours, etc., PENNY WISE. July 15, 1965.