TRAFFIC DANGER-POINT

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 99, 20 January 1933, Page 13

TRAFFIC DANGER-POINT

Moxham Av. & Wellington Rd.

The recent accident in which a man was fatally injured at the junction of Wellington Road and Moxham Avenue calls attention to an admitted danger spot in the city roads. _ To reach that junction either from Moxham Avenue or from the lovyer part of Wellington Road the motorist has to climb a grade, and to climb the grade a motorist either has to "accelerate” or change into second gear. After speeding up motorists, have to make a turn rather more acute than a right-angle turn, and across traffic proceeding in the opposite direction. To do so the good driver, if the road be clear, swings out a little in order to make a better and safer turn, but even so it is always an anxious moment, owing to the driver not being able to. see what is coining in the opposite direction, when about to swing into Moxham Avenue from the south or Wellington Road from the north.

Formerly after dark a motorist had a guide in the glare of the headlights of an approaching car, but this has been nullified to some extent by the erection of a central street light. An improvement would be effected if it were possible to splay back the lower corner of Moxham Avenue and Wellington Road •by some ten feet or so to give a little more room to the southbound traffic.