THE “OFF-SIDE RULE.”

Evening Star, Issue 21736, 2 June 1934, Page 10

THE “OFF-SIDE RULE.”

• TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Regarding tho controversy of the “ off-side rule,” I am of opinion that Mr Mauusell is to be congratulated J’ather than be condemned. The very fact that if a collision occurs the trial is based on “who had the last chance of avoiding the accident? ” and the “ give way to traffic on one’s right” scarcely enters into the argument, is proof in itself that there is something wrong with the law as it stands. Further, in reference to the statement issued to you by the Secretary of the Otago Motor Club, will he state in what other countries this giving way to traffic on the right is in operation, as,, so far as tho writer knows, New Zealand is the only one? To my mind Canada has tho best law for minimising accidents, and that is, that any vehicle entering a main thoroughfare from a side street, must stop and see that all is clear before entering it. After all, a motorist should have the right of way on a main thoroughfare, and it is far better that traffic should bo held up from side street approaches, than on a main road.—l am etc., Dunedin Motorist. May 30. , .