MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
gj ri —() n e of your recent correspondents suggests that the funds of hospitals should be assisted by a further tax on motor spirit, giving as his reason the extra cost to which hospital boards are put through the many motor accidents. This does not seem fair to the ordinary careful driver, who, while not altogether immune from accident,, is certainly not often the cause of one. As one who claims to be a careful motor driver, I should consider it unfair to be penalised on account of the ac'ts Of the careless and reckless, or possibly drunken, driver. I suggest that a more equitable method would be to allocate the fines which are continually being imposed on reckless motorists to hospital ifunds. The.se fines are frequently heavy and in the aggregate must amount to a very considerable annual sum; sufficient I believe to reimburse hospital boards for the extra expenditure entailed through motor accidents. This method would, at any rate, have the advantage of making the destination of the fine fit the crime and would not entail hardship on the ordinary driver, who does his best to obey the law and respects tho rights of others. 0.T.1L
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20519, 21 March 1930, Page 16
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