MOTOR SAFETY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 9 April 1924, Page 9

MOTOR SAFETY

-10 TIIB EDITOR. Sir, —I have just returned from rather a lengthy motor tour, and one thing was very noticeable throughout. That was the way in which motor lorries have very Jittle regard for other traffic on the road. T-ime after time I saw serious accidents narrowly averted. The lorry-drivers seem to rest secure on the top of their moving mountains, and their attitude is, "I'm safe, never mind the other fellow." .At Eketahuna, I saw y heavilvoaded lorry running down on the hill leading to the town at 25 miles an hour and rounding corners without soundiii" the horn. It missed a' head-on roll Won n>|l!l o Ituiriti's cur- by isulicp, uM<i li tpw yui'uls further u^ (ehegc was aa-

other narrow escape-af the speed On all the dangerous hills, Paekakanki, the Ri mu t akas etc I never once heard a motor lorry sound the horn, at a corner, bad though some are, and o f cou „' fc dozens. There should be some way to reach these careless drivers by le^al r>ro cess. Other offenders are som e ° other cars now running from tow n to town . On returning to Wellington it is.amusn S,tl° *** the, fuss m?de about the new Hutt road and speeding.^ That road i s one of the very lew roadfe' in New Zea* land where it ,s safe to ihu-el at a high speed, Motorists are put in rather fin awkward position by the announcement attributed to a. traffic official on race days. On the open parts of the road some latitude was given to cars" A driver certainly does not know where he is under conditions like these Another tiling I not .i ce d i n the touv was the wide prevalence of s i gns> of motor requisites TheSe are nailed. on trees, fences, standing bush, posts, and do not improve the scenery.—l am etc 7th April. TO™IST-