NO "ROAD SENSE"

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 10

NO "ROAD SENSE"

MOTOR ACCIDENTS

MEETING THE PROBLEM

The lack of "road sense" on the part of motorists was deplored by ths chairman of the Makara County Council (Mr. E. Windley) today, when the council was considering the road safety

campaign

The Transport Department wrote to the council on the issuing of suitable posters, and suggesting that the posters be displayed in. the council's buildings or in other prominent places.

"What good will posters be?" asked Councillor J. Purchase. The daily papers were full of accidents, he said, and there were 402 last month. •If the public.;..would not learn enough..from that, 'then what was the use oi posters?

Mr. Windley said that the . local bodies could assist the Transport Department in the control of traffic. "We are perfectly satisfied that it is getting out of control despite all the efforts being made," he said. "I would like to know how many accidents have occurred on the main highways and how many on the subsidiary roads. That information would be useful in view of the fact that we now have a state .of d*il control. Main highways are out of local body hands regarding control, and the subsidiary roads are under no control at all, more or less. I thinjc, as individuals, members of local bodies could take the: numbers of cars the drivers of which were responsible for reckless driving, and report them to the Transport Department. Any responsible motorist could do the same thing. In spite of all that has been done regarding control there is something decidedly lacking, and I think it is the lack of road sense." He moved that his suggestion be forwarded to the Transport Department. The motion was seconded by Councillor W. P. Hume. Councillor R. W. Bothamley said that one of the greatest sources of danger was the motorist who would not keep on his correct side of the road. If.Mr.Wihdley's suggestion were, carried out, one would spend half one's \time in court giving evidence. Councillor Windley: If half a dozen bad reports were sent' in against a motorist the Transport Department inspector would soon interview him. Councillor S. G. Luxton said that it would make one's hair stand on end to see the way motorists drove to and from the golf links at Makara on Sat r urdays and Sundays. He had asked the secretary of the golf club to put up a notice asking motorists to modify their driving. The road, he pointed out. was a subsidiary road. The chairman's suggestion was agreed to.