DANGEROUS PRACTICE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12569, 9 February 1934, Page 2

DANGEROUS PRACTICE.

PASSING OTHER CARS. “A bad practice which lias become accentuated lately is that of passing another vehicle going in the same direction over an intersection,” says the latest safety first message of the Canterbury Automobile Association. “Tlie law is very definite on the subject and forbids the passing ot another motor vehicle within 20 feet of an intersection. There is a great temptation to motorists to put on a spurt to pass a car which might be dawdling, but that is no excuse for placing oneself or other drivers in a position of danger. The man in front may have or heard something to make him go slowly or even stop. He may thrust out. a- hand before quick right-hand turn in one’s tracks. It would be quite a simple matter to involve several Vehicles in a. nasty smash by one driver trying to beat another oyer an intersection. “There is one way to make a .safe and correct, turn to the right, at an intersection. Tt is by sounding the horn approaching the intersection as a warning to unseen vehicles or one 1 ollowing, then extending the right arm from the car window, and making the turning manoeuvre as smartly as possible. And, there is one safe and correct way of passing another vehicle. It is by sounding the horn and then moving smartly past, but one should never attempt to overtake and pass another vehicle near or on an intersection.”