STREET ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 3

STREET ACCIDENTS.

• Sir, —The -increasing number of street accidents impels me to request you 10 be good enough to emphasise by all the means at your command the necessity for the constant exercise of care and common sense. both by lit; public generally and especially by those in charge of vehicles of all description*. T rain car,- with danger ahead madly ring their hells, which, ill the majority of cases, especially in the cases of the aged and infirm, only tend* to confuse, and it should ho a standing rule, put into practice, that when the necessity arises for such bell-ringing the power he .-hut off immediately and the brakes applied well ahead of time, for surely , a deaf or imperfectly-sighted person has a right to some consideration in tile use of i and the' crossing of a public thoroughfare. Also where' two tramcars meet at the same 1 stopping-place (which, to my mind, is a veritable death-trap) they should not come j abreast of each other when stopping, and J only one car should move away at .a time, , the other remaining stationary until tlx; j other is well clear. 1 have also noticed that 1 danger is always present at stable and car- 1 riage entrances, and at the junction of liar- ( row lanes and streets with main thoroughfares, and vehicles in all such'cases should t be led out and in with the driver or rider : < a-foot, while the law for the' rounding of i the street corners at a walking pace only < should be very strictly enforced by all the ' authorities involved. There should also bo a law for the guidance of horse-riders, especially at night, whereby they would require to warn pedestrians and others of their presence or approach, and 1 would suggest. 1 (hat a whistle, bell, or so mo such means be made use of in such circumstances. The matters of-pedestrians keeping to the right and of vehicles to the left, together with the i absolute necessity of the keeping of our foot- < . paths clear of all fruit skins, are rflso com- 11 . ' ' ' '■ • ■ ' ' " ■

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