THE ROAD HOG

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6672, 27 July 1928, Page 4

THE ROAD HOG

£IOO TINE SUGGESTED TO ST©P V ' GROWING DANGER. Search Webster as you may, you will find no definition of a speedway such as ! “*tT'brdad, smooth suburban .road with easy Nothing like it, in, fact, says the Auckland ‘'Sun.” 1 But there are hundreds of motorists who, vrith . a most dangerous' indifference to their own and the other fellow’s safety, persist in speeding along any stretch of. road that provides easy going. „, v , „ , Of course there are times when a mptorist has an obviously clear “go ’’—when to ‘'step on it” is not dangerous. But; unfortunately for the safety of the road, the speedster, type of road hog is a decidedly poor judge. Ho does not know when the way is clear enough to “open her out.”. Or ho does not care, S As to the "other chap,” the speed hog is not interested. The clang of. the ambulance bell, or the voice of the police prosecutor, do not enter into his scheme of things. 'They are matters of concern only for the “mug”—the motorist who crashes or is caught. He is above that kind of thing. 1 ’ ’ V On the Increase. / But the increasingly large, number of road crashes give the speed hog the lie direct. Everyone knows him for a menace—every motorist has boon forced off the road by his lunatic burst of speed; has had to wrench the wheel and stamp ,on the brake to give him an unwarranted right of way. Every available method appears to have been tried to stop these practices, but they still go on. The authorities should adopt the suggestion com tipually being advocated By the motorists,’ organisations throughout the country for a stiffer fine. ■ , • In Sydney the police have asked for a maximum fine of £IOO and the Tight for the Court to send tho offender to gaol without the option.

Whatever is done in Auckland it is certainly time that road speeding loses its charm for tho selfish, the stupid and the dangerous driver. ,