RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31326, 23 March 1967, Page 26

RANDOM REMINDER

ROAD GHOSTS

In England, insurance company investigators have been called in, according to an article in “Motor,” to look into the many reports of motorists seeing ghosts. Lorry drivers on the Great North Road have reported seeing a large pantechnicon materialise just ahead of them only to discover, after taking avoiding action, that there had been no obstruction. Somewhere in the north, a large vehicle habitually reverses out of a narrow opening into the path of oncoming traffic. There have been other reports of a phantom motor coach, and the Watford By-pass has the wreckage of a car which disappears when the motorist stops to lend a hand. Thera have been

faces at the road-side, screams in the night, and one poor fellow reported that a blood-stained hand had come over his shoulder to grip his steering wheel. Near Kendal, there is a woman who gets killed regularly. She stands in the middle of the road glaring, but she isn’t there after she has been knocked over. And there is a ghost bus in North Kensington. It is seen speeding along without driver or passengers.

Older readers may remember the crop of gremlins which appeared on the wings and fuselages of aircraft flown by weary pilots in the early days of the Second World War.

These reports are quite

horrifying, because of th# accidents such hallucinations might cause. If a proper investigation i; being made, much good may come of it The at? should be fully cleareq When all these odd inci dents are fully reported, motorists will understand the reasons behind their belief in motorised Marie Celestes. The whole field should be covered, to Include such apparently irrelevant items as the man who can never make a right turn because he always hears the insistent voice of his mother-in-law commanding him to turn left The back-seat driver is as dangerous as a phantom motor coach and infinitely more substantial a threat