A REAL MOTOR TRAP
WOULD BK TOO COSTLY' Even tlie French lire becoming sotme'vhat alarmed at the increasing number of motor accidents in their country and various suggestions for mitigating the evil have been made. One is " that motorists should be allowed to traverse the Routes Rationales without speed resrietion, as at present, but that a limit should be enforced on the seconadarv roads, so that the inhabitants of the countryside might be allowed to go about their business in comparative safety. The crossing of fln> Routes Nationales, however, left a problem to be solved. A serious suggestion was made by someone that lateral gullies should be cut in the roads near villages and crossings to compel motorists °lo slacken speed, but. needless to say. the responsibility tor broken axles ' and broken necks is more than any local, authority is likolv to assume.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 January 1926, Page 3
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143A REAL MOTOR TRAP Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 January 1926, Page 3
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