Road Courtesy

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6841, 23 April 1932, Page 8

Road Courtesy

A member wrote to tho Auckland Automobile Association mentioning that wliilo touring England and on the Continent, ho noticed that at crossroads, on the outskirts of towns where there were no traffic officers and also in most places where there was danger, pedestrians indicated “all clear’’ or otherwise to approaching motorists. Tho system struck him as being particularly effective in cases where visibility was obscured, and where two cars v/cre approaching an intersection, even school boys would go out on to the roadway and signal to each driver to reduce speed. Ho drew the association’s attention to tho number of occasions during tho past holidays on which he had seen collisions narrowly averted and' on several occasions there wero people walking in the vicinity who could easily have given somo indication to the drivers of tho impending danger had they been educated up to this custom. This was a point on which motorists could greatly assist one another. Very many of the pedestrians of to-day arc as one time motorists or at least passengers in motor cars, and in the interest of “Safety First,” tho association suggests that courtesy could te extended to road users in this manner in an effort to reduce tho heavy toll of car accidents.