TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
The Chief Causes SUDDEN “PULLING-OUT” The principal cause of traffic accidents in Hastings is the sudden pull-ing-out of vehicles from the kerb, said .Mr. W .Nimon, one of the proprietors of the Hastings-Havelock bus service, in an address to the Hastings Rotary Club yesterday. Mr. Nimon and his brother have been driving into and through Heretaiinga street dozens of times daily for the past 1.8 years. “In my belief,” saio Mr. Nimon, “there is no street in any other town in New Zealand where so much traffic has to pass so many intersections in so short a distance. “Most people,” he added, “observe the right-hand rule, but there are a lew who just see the way clear in the direction in which they are going, and fail to give the right-of-way to traffic approaching on the right.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 147, 6 June 1936, Page 6
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