ROAD PERILS.
"Motorists ought to be able to sense pedestrian difficulties, whatever they are, and drive accordingly, but they apparently cannot. The real difficulty lies in the fact that the difference between a slightly dangerous and a safe action is so little as regards speed, and involves such minute contingencies, that it is almost imperceptible, and consequently it would be impossible to frame a rule so as to cover them. What is known as the 'Road Sense,' of which we hear a good deal, is almost invariably a faculty acquired as the result of long experience in driving, with a few accidents or narrow escapes thrown in; and this is by no means the same thing as the 'Speed Danger Faculty,' which is instinctive. It is quite clear from the way people, obviously possessed of the 'Road Sense,' write or talk about the causes of accidents, that they are not possessed of the elementary prin-. ciples of the 'Speed Danger Faculty." —Mr Fred H. Hoare, writing in his pamphlet, "Road Perils and the
Cure."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVI, Issue 42, 28 May 1935, Page 2
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