GLARING HEADLIGHTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 18

GLARING HEADLIGHTS

SERIOUS ROAD MENACE NEED FOR ELIMINATION DRIVERS' LACK OF DISCIPLINE [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION'] DUXEDIX, Wednesday Criticism of the apathy of those responsible for the control of roads as far as action to eliminate the danger of glaring headlights was concerned was expressed at the annual conference of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers by the chairman of the rural roads committee, Mr. H. F. Toogood, when reporting to the conference on behalf of the committee.. "The committee believes that there arc as many bad drivers of motor vehicles in New Zealand as there are faults in the roads," said Mr. Toogood. "The chances of accident are increased greatly by want of discipline among drivers. Roads are being built to provide the utmost degree of safety, but this fact is ignored, and they are being made more dangerous than ever by this lack of discipline. "Of all the offences committed on tho road there is none more serious than that of the driver who blinds oncoming motorists with his glaring headlights," continued Mr. Toogood. "Yet men are allowed to use the road with these menacing headlights, and we never hear of a prosecution. There are innumerable prosecutions for parking and other similar breaches, and it is time something was done to stir up action in this more important res poet." Mr. Toogood added that the motorist was not always to blame for the fact that his lights were blinding, but that did not alter the fact that glaring lights constituted one of tho biggest menaces oil the road.