SHE SAYS...

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31499, 13 October 1967, Page 10

SHE SAYS...

Familarity breeds contempt I the city for business or shopin driving as in other things, Pi n S 0311 result in one’s and using the same route to are , ness becoming dulled. • 'This is seen when a new set of traffic lights is installed or a give-way sign is erected or changed to a compulsory stop. Some drivers who know the road well drive on what they remember, not what they see, and drive through red lights and signs.

This illustrates the necessity of concentration when driving, in other words, think what you are doing. Roadusers can be killed because someone made an incorrect assumption.

Some women are used to driving into the city on one day, once a week, and it is easy for them to forget that road signs and other features can change. Another road feature which catches out the unwary is lane marking. In Christchurch the left lane may be used by straight-through traffic at one intersection but not at the next, which often confuses the inattentive. Sometimes the advance warning arrows do not give enough advance warning, and this is all the more reason for care. The statistics of road accidents often show the danger of becoming over-familiar with a 'ertain stretch of road, for many motorists are killed in accidents on roads they know well, often only a short distance from their homes. Too frequently, encountering a familiar road is an invitaition to drive automatically, without thinking or keeping a proper look-out.