SAFETY FIRST

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 147, 23 June 1937, Page 10

SAFETY FIRST

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Much has been heard, of late, concerning motor-car' accidents. The authorities are to be commended for introducing so many measures to avert future accidents. On the main road at Wadestowii, adjacent to the entrance to the main public school, is a bend in the roadway, which roadway is surfaced with bitumen. One side has a footpath but the other side is a high clay bank with several large pine trees growing thereon. Some of the. roots of some of the trees are exposed and there is a grave danger that a storm may. bring them down. The bank is crumbling. My chief object in asking you, Sir, to give publicity to the matter is the danger this bend is, not only to motorists, but particularly to children going to and returning from school. More than once I have seen accidents narrowly averted. A clear view of the roadway is obscured by the bank and trees. Moreover, the bend could well and easily be straightened out. An insnection by the authorities will satisfy i!v-m that the location is one calling : f i;r' attention. Prevention is better than cure.—l am, etc., 1 , PARENT.