A GOOD RULE.
A good rule for driving is: “Don’t do anything suddenly.” This goes for stopping, backing, changing direction, crossing railway tracks, and approaching street intersections;. Most accidents are caused by one’s haste, his too sudden action of some sort. Crashes between cars are almost always caused by one driver’s sudden decision and to do something other than he has been doing. He suddenly decides to turn or to pass another vehicle, or to stop or to increase speed or simply to go ahead. The driver approaching or coming up from behind has no time to adapt his actions to the sudden decision of the first, and in a flash the accident has happened. If automobile dealers generally, in teaching customers to drive or in other contracts with them would emphasise the necessity for deliberate and watchful changes in the driving of every car, it would help to cut down the accident toll.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2516, 20 December 1927, Page 2
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154A GOOD RULE. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2516, 20 December 1927, Page 2
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