"Criminal in their Neglect”
A MOTORIST’S COMPLAINT. DRIVING WITHOUT LIGHTS. A motorist complained to “The Times” yesterday that on several occasions while motoring to Rongomai at night, he had met oncoming motorists driving without lights and that on Thursday evening he was lucky to avoid a serious accident through such a neglect. “Surely now that the main highway serving the district is being put in such good order,” he said, “it is only right that we have the fullest benefits accruing from the good running surface. It seems unfair that motorists should be expected, at night-time, to be constantly on the 'quF vive,’ not knowing the minute they may expect to meet a machine unheralded in approach and yet be expected to avoid collision.” “People who knowingly drive a car on any highway without lights,” ho concluded, “are not only a menace, but are criminal in that they are endangering tho life of some unexpecting motorist who is using the road under proper conditions.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 2
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