“CUTTING-IN.”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 6

“CUTTING-IN.”

NEW DRIVERS WARNED. A BAD PRACTICE. Novice drivers should overcome the temptation to “cut in.” This is a bad practice at any time, but when a driver is inexp irienced, it may be very dan* gerous. It consists of pulling out so as to pass a car travelling in the same direction when, approaching from the opposite direction, there is another car that, conceivably, is travelling at a speed which will cause all three cars to pass each other when practically al> Fven when a road is wide this is risky; on narrow roads the oncoming driver has frequently to stow down m order to avert a collision the same applying to the driver who 13 being overtaken, and who endeavours to fall back so as to permit the offender to “cut in" between his car and the one * P Wh en h ainblin gal ong for the sheer iov of being out on a tine day, hug the near side of the road and do not glower when there is the sound of a horn behind and a car Passesyou There will be occasions when you vourself will have to place business beL°,e pl-'sure, and -hen you -11 say unkind things about amblers who resent being passed, and who, per imp, are sufficiently selfish to stick to the are Stationed end touring roads, gi'e a 'e - licence as regard car speeds and fre;ril^, P arf S tS e rn, S pl' Cb to t rave at however , who insists against these road pests. _