MAXIMS FOB MOTORISTS.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 2952, 19 January 1926, Page 2

MAXIMS FOB MOTORISTS.

Drive slowly when rounding corners. Cross crossings carefully. Learn and obey traffic laws. Get the hand sig,nal habit; it protects you too. Always turn your wheels to the kerb when parking. , Common sense takes the guess out of driving. A 60-mile an hour travi a quarter of a mile away only takes 15 seconds to reach the crossing, and it can't stop. You can. Courtesy prevents accidents. ' Look out for the other fellow. Maybe I he can't. Be sure the road is clear before starting from the kerb. Obey rules of the road; you be right first. Use common sense in driving; if you haven't it, imitate it. Consider the other fellow's safety and yours will follow. Always be ready for emergency. If you must be a "one-armed" driver take out more insurance policies and /order flowers. Thoughtlessness causes accidents. Try thinking. Never pass another car going up. a hill or at a curve. It's all right to dispute the right of road with the engine-driver, but not while he's on his train. Do;a't expect children to look out for themselves. If a driver used speed near your children! ! ! ! ! The middle-of-the-road driver is known as a "road-hog." Keep to the left. Trying to save five minutes in traffic costs that time, everyone's respect, extra petrol, wear—a;ad prosecution. Stay in the traffic line. You will save time and a possible fine. Common-sense and courtesy are the chief elements of safe driving. Be careful, vigilant, courteous, thoughtful. When a driver i»n the wrong insists on the right of way, let him have it. You can't argue with a fool. But you can report him. Bemember that a pedestrian has the right to cross the street at the crossing.

Says Archdeacon Evans, of New Plymouth, who has just returned from a tour abroad: —The traffic in London ?vid other great cities is splendidly regulated and accidents are comparatively rare, considering the immensity of the traffic, but the country roads are unsafe owing to the hogs who drive at great speed, try to pass cars on the road and turn out of side roads at an extraordinary 'pace. Every day valuable lives are lost, mainly through reckless driving, and some heavy penalty will

have to be give,n if the tremendous death and injury Tate is to be stopped. In parts of the United States, I believe, one penalty is to make the culprit driver spend the night i,n the morgue with the victim of his brutality, and;J& would not be a bad scheme to follow v * that example. The authorities estimate that 3,000,000 cars trill' be on the roads of Great Britain thio year. The number of persons killed 5,n road accidents iv England has risen to 614 per annum and an ejiornious number injured.