WHAT A HOPE!
NEW HIGHWAY CODE (Prom Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 27th, December.. If Mr Hore Belislia imagines his new Highway Code will have any appreciable effect on what he has himself; described as mass murder on the roads he is a super-optimisT. Last week’s grim total was 1(55 people killed outright'and over 4,000 injured. Many, of the latter are in reality less fortunate than the former. To meet this appalling situation, unparalleled in history, we are offered a pious essay on etiquette. Most motorists already act up to the new Code. The ruthless and reckless minority who do not will no more be influenced by these polite admonitions than homicidal tendencies can he cured by dancing lessons. Until the law, as expressed by judges and juries too, regards murder on. the roads as just as much a hanging matter as any other form of homicide there will he no diminution in our, mad casualties.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 22 January 1935, Page 5
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