BETTER DRIVING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17439, 10 April 1931, Page 7

BETTER DRIVING

BRITISH MOTORISTS

EFFECT OF NEW RULES

(Elec, Tel. Copyright’—United Press Assn.) LONDON, April 8.

More than 1000 trained observers, reporting to the .Automobile Association on the effects of the working of the new Road Traffic Act, declare that Eastertide motoring showed an appreeiable improvement in driving skill and road courtesy. The recognised driving signals were given correctly. The average speed was slightly faster than before the abolition of the limit but greater care was taken. The cornering in towns and villages showed great improvement, though there were a few eases of passing on the bends. Only 10 per cent, of the drivers were judged guilty’ of bad driving.

Tho Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman commented recently: The gravity of the load accident jiroblem formed the text of tho weighty appeal made hv the Duke of York to all public authorities to combine in a crusade against the ini reusing loss of life. Out of 7.QCO people killed on the roads last year there were no fewer than 1500 children, and this sacrifice of over .100 voang lives every month is til! the more deplorable bemuse to some extent it is preventable. Inquests have shown that of every 200 deaths, adults and juvenile, by road traffic, 87 might with proper precautions have been prevented. This is a tevelation that must make all thinking jieople pause.