TRAFFIC LAWS IN BRITAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23859, 13 July 1939, Page 14

TRAFFIC LAWS IN BRITAIN

The strictness with which motoring laws are enforced has struck Mr H. Macintosh in his visit to Britain. Writing from London he has enclosed a newspaper clipping about a woman “L ” driver who was fined 10s at Brighton under striking circumstances. She was driving her car with a driving instructor at her side, and stopped to put her mother down. The instructor got out to open the door, and while still on the kerb asked his pupil to drive nearer to the gutter. She drove two yards, and for this she was fined, the charge being that she had driven while not under Hie supervision of a qualified driver. Another matter that interested Mr Macintosh was the confession of the Minister of Transport to the National Safety First Conference in London on May 19 that he was fined in London, six weeks before he became Minister of Transport, for exceeding the speed limit of twenty miles an hour in Hyde Park. The police evidence was that he had been timed at a speed of 34 rn.p.h. and his licence was endorsed. The police added that he had a clean record, and according to the Minister it had been clean for thirty years. Up to the end of April. Mr Macintosh savs. the deaths of pedestrians from road accidents in Britain totalled a thousand, and 22,702 had been injured. Road casualties in April included 513 deaths. The injured totalled 18,079. For all road deaths from accidents in. the first four months of the year the figure was 1018.