MOTORIST AND PEDESTRIAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19512, 16 December 1926, Page 10

MOTORIST AND PEDESTRIAN.

Sir, —In reply to your correspondent, " Mike," 1 would like to point out that it was not niv intention to insinuate that a sense of responsibility is superfluous in drivers. If my statements can bear that construction 1 am sorry, My contention was, and is, that pedestrians have less to fear from boy drivers than from adult drivers who have not learned when young. And I wilj go further and stale that of boys, those aged 14 to 16 arc much more likely to be cautious than those aged 17-20, and I think all experienced motorists will agree with me. So increasing!/ the minimum age to 17 would be futile and a very great disappointment to hundreds o!' boys who are counting the days until (hey "can obtain a licence. Accidents are often attributable to irresponsibility undoubtedly, not to the irresponsibility of yo.ith, however, but to the irresponsibility arising out of an alcohol befogged brain more often than not. In conclusion, I would, with all due deference, exhort Auckland pedestrians to look where they're going, and then they won't be knocked down , Paddy.