DISCIPLINING MOTORISTS
- - -*3>STANDARD OF ROAD SAFETY The sentence of three years’ penal servitude passed by Mr Justice Du Parcq on an English motorist convicted of .manslaughter by reckless 'driving must arrest public attention, comments the “Daily Telegraph.” That was one of its main purposes. Those concerned with the administration of justice and llie general public—for jurors have their part to play—must recognise that failure to punish serious road offences by adequate penalties is a grave dereliction of duty. The Courts, it cannot be denied, have been slow to impose exemplary penalties, arid juries have shrunk from finding verdicts of guilty on the graver charges, in the absence of criminal intent. 'Flic jjublic safely demands that any driver who treats lives with contempt should be dealt with drastically and consistently. The more publicity Rich cases are given the more likely W 3 are to reduce the amount of brutal driving. Even more powerful in raising the standard of road safety is idle stiffening of public feeling against the motorist amok.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 30 January 1936, Page 3
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