RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCIDENT
An analysis of road accidents in which cyclists and pedestrians were involved last year has been made by the Transport. Department with the aim of ascertaining upon whom the blame mostly laid, and it has been found that the cyclist and the pedestrian are, in these particular types of accident, very often responsible. In nearly a thousand accidents involving bicycles, the cyclist was adjudged by the reporting officers to be responsible in 53 per cent, of cases, the motorist in 46 per cent., the road in 1 per cent., and the weather in three instances only. Frequent causes of cycle accidents were failure by tlie cyclist to keep to the correct side of the road, failure to give way, bad signalling, careless swerving, and recklessly emerging from a side road. Pedestrians were responsible for nearly threequarters of the 879 accidents in which they were involved. The most frequent pedestrian faults were crossing the roadway heedless of traffic, and stepping on to the road without exercising due caution. Of those pedestrians struck while walking, along the road, all who were fataly injured were walking with their backs to traffic.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 22, 26 July 1939, Page 6
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191RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 22, 26 July 1939, Page 6
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