STRICT ENFORCEMENT
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —The Minister of transport is making yet another appeal to motorists to drive more carefully, but judging from results of many appeals on this and other matters there will not be much improvement. I suggest that the one and only remedy is to strictly enforce the transport laws. At present they are often openly flouted. Let two Inspectors drive along a stretch of road in a built-in area at exactly 30 miles per hour (the maximum legal speed) and take the number of every car that overtakes them; also of all who keep on the centre of ( the road, and prosecute them. To occasionally catch one travelling at 45 and 52 miles per hour emphatically encourages the 35 to 40 miles. If the law says 30 miles is the maximum then 31 and over is breaking the law and there is no argument about it.
Also take up the same attitude to drivers on all other rules both inside and outside built-in areas.
. If this course were followed right through the country our police and court officials would have a very busy time for a while, but motorists would soon realise that the law must be obeyed.—l am, etc.,
A MOTORIST.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1941, Page 8
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