SOME DRIVERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 October 1927, Page 12

SOME DRIVERS

ARE POOR SPORTS.

Ono form of courtesy that motorists as a group well might display is that involved in protecting the other man’s ear when pulling in or out of a narrow parking space. Hundreds of pounds of damage to automoiles is done in this way monthly.

It unfortunately is true that the careless motorists can ‘get by’ with a great deal of tho damage he docs to the machines parked alongside of his own. Owners of tho machines so injured cannot stand beside them all day to check up on the inconsiderate driver, but with an acute dearth of parking space, it is becoming almost necessary to d"o just that if ono wants to make certain that his car will be undamaged. As an exhibition of poor driving and worse sportsmanship, striking a parked car and failing to notify its owner, tops thorn all. The good driver does not have to experiment. He can measure a space with his eye and if it is too narrow for his car, he is not foolish enough to attempt, to enter it. Some drivers, however, will try to get into a space that is I too small. They will damage the fenders of the cars parked beside the space and then turn around and flee when they have made certain no one has seen them.

They are responsible only to themselves for the harm thus done to their own automobile!, but mangling tho fenders of another man’s car Is quite another thing.

Of course there are many ar.cidejts of this kind that are' forgivable. These are the ones wherein the offending motorist takes the number of the other car and reports to its owner that he has wrought the damage. It is the only courteous thing to do unis the only courteous thing to do under tho circumstances and it is one form of courtesy that well might be practiced by every motorist.