MOTORIST AND PEDESTRIAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19511, 15 December 1926, Page 10

MOTORIST AND PEDESTRIAN.

Sir, —A correspondent in Heuald, who claimed to have experience in teaching motor-car driving, oppose} the City Council's recommendation to increase the age limit for motor drivers to 17 years. The council's attitude will assuredly receive support from mere pedestrians. I quote the following from your correspondent's letter: "I am emphatically of opinion that there is no danger from boys driving, provided they arj strong enough to control their machines." And again, further on: "What a boy may lack in sense of responsibility is more than compensated for by his natural aptitude and road sense." It would "bg highly interesting to know how much support this astounding contention r&ceives from experienced motorists. Dp they subscribe to the theory that given "natural aptitude" and " road sense" in motor drivers, si sense of responsibility ig superfluous ? Are not many motor accidents traceable to irresponsibility in some way on the part of the drivers ? Theappalling toll of human lives being takep to-day in motor 'accidents is hastening the time when, Jet us hop?!, mere ability to drive a car will be the least important among the tests applied to applicants far driving licences. Mike.