A GOLDEN RULE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12864, 19 May 1936, Page 5

A GOLDEN RULE

“NEVER RUN ACROSS A ROAD.” CORONER’S HINT TO PEDESTRIANS. ' “BETTER TO WAIT TILL THERE IS TIME.” (Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 18. “t cannot stress too strongly the necessity for the -people, particularly old people, to use care when crossing n highway at night when the. lights of traffic and street lights arc apt to bb confusing,” said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at an inquest into tho death of Mrs. Alary Jane Clarke, aged 70, a widow, who was knocked down by a. motor car on April 15. “This old ladj r seems to have run in front of the car, thinking she could get across,” ho continued. “She was elderly and no doubt her sight was deficient, as she wore grasses and she was probably deceived as to the speed of the car. “It is a golden rule never to run across a highway. If there is not limo to get across without running, then one should wait H.ere again we have evidence that the driver was driving in a perfectly reasonable manner, but, apparently, this old mail stepped out from tho kerb without looking,” Air. Wilson said, later, at an inquest into tho death of John Riddell, aged 70, who suffered fatal injuries when knocked down by a motor car in Pitt Street on May 18. _ “I don’t know bow accidents of Ibis kind are to be avoided, unless there is some control of pedestrian traffic,” ho added. “The old age of slow moving traffic has passed and vehicle? now travel rapidly. We must realise that, in large cities, there are places where people cross while traffic is held up. Rut I do not know whether traffic in this city has reached sufficient intensity. At certain places there is control by traffic officers, but this is possible only at important intersections. As matters are at present, extreme care must he exercised.”