Road safety
Sir, —Correspondents in reply have missed the point. All I wished to say was, is a motorist in the wrong to slow up on approaching a dangerous railway crossing? If, in doing so, the following traffic is held up momentarily surely it is for their safety, also. On the long straight stretches from Ashburton we travelled about 50 to 55 m.pJh., keeping well to the left, a speed quite fast 'enough for a small car. Big fast cars continually passed us travelling well into the seventies and in far too many cases, in the face of oncoming traffic, cut across close in front of our car. Dangerous driving, to say the least. No wonder there are head-on collisions. A J. McFarlane’s letter was amusing. His reference to "fast-flowing water and swirling eddies” recalled Tennyson’s poem, “The Brook”; “I chatter, chatter, as I flow to join the brimming river.” For some, the “brimming river” could be the Styx!—Yours, etc., YOU CAN’T WIN. November 7, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 18
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