DANGER TO TRAFFIC

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1935, Page 3

DANGER TO TRAFFIC

LORRIES ON ROADSIDE. STAND-BY LAMPS SUGGESTED. To prevent possibilities of accidents of fatal consequence through the parking of motor-lorries without lights on the sides of roads in the country, the Automobile Association (Taranaki) decided last night to forward a remit to the North Island Motor Union asking for support in having legislation passed requiring lorries to be equipped with stand-by lamps. Mr. W. C. Weston brought the matter up when he said that recently, when a lorry pulled, slightly off the road and parked without lights, a motor-cyclist had run into it and had been killed. He considered that lorry drivers should be compelled to carry some sort of hurricane lamp to swing on the rear of the vehicle when standing still. “Even a bicycle lamp would do,” said Mr. R. Day, who later suggested that the equipping of the lorries with two red rear reflectors might help. “Lorries are regularly on the roads at night now,” said Mr. Weston, “and it would be no hardship for the drivers to carry extra lamps.” Mr. W. Wilton: The trouble might be that the legislation would require car owners to do the same. On Mr. Weston’s motion, it was decided to forward a remit to the next meeting of the North Island Motor Union asking for support for legislation compelling lorry drivers to carry two standby lamps on their vehicles, one for the front and the other for the rear. Mr. F. Amoore pointed out that in the locality recently there had been two deaths through lorries being parked on the side of the road at night.