Brake Test Saves Child

Northern Advocate, 25 March 1937, Page 8

Brake Test Saves Child

i i * While the storm of controv- [ l ersy is raging, there are some [ I Whangarei people who have cause • I to thank Mr Semple for his motor I ■ testing regulations, “ ■ A mother was pushing her- J i perambulator across the corner of ■ I Hank and Cameron Streets yester- i I day afternoon, and holding another | * little toddler by its hand. Right j I at the middle of the crossing, the a I little chap eluded his mother’s \ * grasp, and she made a dart to j| s catch him, leaving the perambula- J a tor for a moment. a % \ H I It slipped backward on the cant ■ J of the road, and, with its human J ■ freight, made straight in the path J a of an oncoming loAy. The lorry a i pulled up within a foot of the a J pram. Afterwards the driver was J J heard to remark: “Thank God I * ■ I a had my brakes tested and adjusted a a this morning.” E