CARELESS DRIVING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 154, 4 July 1867, Page 3

CARELESS DRIVING.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir — An accident, fortunately unattended with serious results, happened last evening between six and*^ seven o'clock, on the Waimea-road. I was coming out of town with two others in a light cart, and when a little above MrDearsley's, saw a cart coming towards town on the wrong side of the read. Though I called out to the driver he did not take his proper side, but came into collision with my horse. Both horses were very quiet, and going slowly, but this would not have prevented a serious accident. Providentially, the shaft of the other cart hit the hame on my horse and made a large dint in it, then - glided off and made a slight scar on the horse's shoulder; had the shaft struck three inches on either side of the hame it would, in all probability, hnve killed the horse and endangered the lives of those in the cart. The blow on the hame made the horse turn round suddenly, and thus we escaped further injury, except the breaking of the harness. When a little above the Rising Sun our lives were again in danger. A trap (which, if information afterwards received be correct, belonged to a gingerbeer manufacturer) was coming College-hill at a furious rate, on the wroug side of the road. On calling out _t.o the driver he did not

abate nor alter his course, bat greeted us with oaths and curses; and we narrowly escaped what otherwise might have been, but for the sudden turning aside of my horse through the previous fright, a fatal accident. A law similar to that in force in England is evidently necessary in Nelson, compelling drivers to keep the right side of the road. The first-mentioned party, if they act honorably, will seek to repair the damage doue through their neglect, without an exposure. I am. &c, R. C. Stoke, 2 July, 1867.