SHE SAYS...

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31385, 2 June 1967, Page 7

SHE SAYS...

A six-mile trip I made through the city this week reminded me once again of last week’s comments on the low standard of driving. In the first quarter of a mile two women drivers baulked traffic by driving at 20 m.p.h. well towards the middle of the road. A third woman driver narrowly escaped injury when she opened the door of her parked car without first looking to see if any traffic was coming. A fourth driver, again a woman, with her small child standing on the seat beside her, pulled out from the kerb a little further down the road. She did not look or signal, and oncoming traffic had to brake hard to avoid her. At least she signalled before she turned right at the next intersection. A mile further on it became the turn of the male drivers to offend. A bus pulling out from a bus stop, about 15 yards from a corner, almost collided with a truck that was moving past and signalling a

left turn. The truck driver avoided a collision by giving way to the bus, which then passed him on the left and went its way. Traffic behind was brought to a stop while this went on. By this time my faith in other drivers was somewhat shattered. Then several intersections further along Manchester street, a cyclist on my right beamed as I gave way to him. I felt a little better. But on the return journey through Cranmer square an old car piffling a trailer loaded with wood cut the corner, and I had to swerve to avoid him. The last incident occurred when a delivery van double parked on the left of the road pulled out in front of me without looking or signalling. I had satisfaction in blowing the horn at him, and I hope he had equal satisfaction from sounding his horn in return.

A little care and common sense would have prevented any of these potentially acci-dent-causing incidents.