NOT EVEN FOR URGENT CALL

Evening Star, Issue 20022, 13 November 1928, Page 12

NOT EVEN FOR URGENT CALL

DOCTORS MUST OBEY SPEED RULES ISeeciAU to the ‘ Stab.’] CHRISTCHURCH, November 12. That he would not exempt from the provisions of the by-laws even a doctor wlir. was hurrying in response to an urgent call was the definite statement made by Mr Mosely, SAL, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when he fined a man for speeding who had driven a doctor to Rangiora on a case, and Mas taking him back to the city for a consultation. “If a doctor is charged before me with speeding, even when going to a case of the utmost urgency, I would not take it into consideration,” said the magistrate. “ Doctors, or anybody else, are not entitled to endanger the safety of the public, not even in attempting to save another life. There were 178 deaths in the dominion last year, largely-caused through the recklessness of motor drivers, forif motorists had observed the regulations there would not hare been one-third of thorn.”