RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30822, 6 August 1965, Page 22

RANDOM REMINDER

IN COMMAND

Do you, when you observe an accident, go hot and cold, stall your car, summon police, ambulance and firemen and then find all is well? You do? Well take heart then —even those flinty boys in blue are not always as cool as they seem. We have it from the lips of a 15-year-old applicant for a driving licence that his uniformed attendant did show a tendency to panic when involved in such a situation. They had just about completed the driving licence circuit and were returning home from the hills when there was a rending crash ahead as two cars disputed the right of way at a corner, bounced apart and shear-

ed off into opposite gutters. Tortured steel groaned, glass tinkled, dust rose—then silence. The officer commanded his driver to stop and prepared to sprint to the scene. It was too far. He climbed in again and urged haste. They came to the comer, left the car and prepared to help the injured. But there were none. The two drivers struggled out unaided and began to bristle. The officer began to interest himself in the circumstances and failed to notice that a queue was forming on the blocked road. He attempted, without success, to direct traffic and then realised the car in which he had been a passenger was the culprit The young driver

was assisting to right one of the damaged vehicles so the officer climbed into the car and drove it from the scene. It it was a pity that he parked it on ,i bus stop, it was even more unfortunate that a bus should suddenly arrive on the scene. The driver had evidently had trouble with cars parked on bus stops that morning for he leaned heavily on the horn and the stentorian blast behind him caused the officer to stall the car. The engine flooded and the starter whirred. And all the time the horn woke the echoes. But the officer soon had command of the situation. He climbed out, donned his cap and strolled over to the astounded bus driver. “Go easy on that horn driver," ha advised.