DRIVING WITH CARE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 8

DRIVING WITH CARE

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I would ask space to add something pertinent to a letter appearing in "The Post" on Thursday. I wish to appeal to motorists to take more care during the school holidays; and in fact at all times; not to park in senseless places such as tram stops; to cease cutting corner* on the wrong side of the road; to look both ways at a railway crossing; to remember that a pedestrian has the right of way if already crossing a road, especially at corners. One frequently sees motor-cars going at reckless speed past intersections; "beating" lights; speeding up to "beat" trams before a stop; turning corners, and disputing (successfully) the right of way with pedestrians already walking across the road; speeding up and disputing (but too often not successfully) the right o£ way with a train. One sees every day people alighting from a tram car and pausing with almost.a look of fear to see whether the motor-car, which has its. front wheel at the step of the tram, is really going to stop or not. I realise that it is impossible for a skilled driver to avert accidents in some circumstances (and heaven help us,from the unskilled), but really is there any ntted for the motorist to rush at' a maximum speed of the car unless on the race track? A little more care and thought from the motorist would create a feeling of respect for the pedestrian instead of the fear now felt by children and old folk alike. The foregoing does not apply to all drivers by any means, but in most cases of accidents a careless driver is wholly or partly to. blame. A service car driver has almost a clean record. —I am, etc., 32 YEARS PEDESTRIAN.