“HIT-RUN"
WHY DRIVERS DO II
RSYCHOLOG IST’? THEORY
S’Vl )NE V, Sept. 12. "Why do what have come to bo known as “hit-run” drvers ait as they dor
Dr. A. H. Martin, the prominentpsychologist, says that a driver might bo totally unaware that he lias knocked a person down. The excitement of the fraction of. a second as the car swoops down on the unlucky pedestrian might induce a mild epileptic fit which numbs the, brain of the driver, and lie keeps on totally unaware that he has left a badly injured person on- the road. Then, again, it might be, just- panic. Realising that he may meet trouble in the courts; the driver of a car speeds away from the scene ot the accident, his faculties numbed by the horror of the whole tiling. This type of panic does not last very long. Dr. Martin says,, and soon the driver realises his mistake. Then lie is overcome bv another type of panic, and; fearful of the police, makes every effort to cover up Ins tracks. .u . ..i
Occasionally the police have great difficulty in “ tracing a. Jiit-riih driver. , - 1 • .v
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11323, 29 September 1930, Page 5
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