ROAD RACING.
It is good to see the Automobile Associations coining into line on the subject of record-breaking on roads. There is nothing to be said for this road racing. At the last meeting of the New Zealand Union one member defended it on the grounds that .with a careful driver there was no danger, that no one had been killed yet,, and that “ reliability trials ” were necessary for the progress of the motor industry. Most people, however, will agree with the other member who said that even on a clear road a speed of eighty miles an'hour was dangerous. As for the second argument, it is notorious that in many respects the world is content to wait until someone has been killed before it deals with a danger, and it is common sense, when the danger is so patent as it is in this instance, that prevention should be promptly applied. This tearing along highways in a race against the clock is a form of advertisement that should be stopped in the interests of public safety.—Auckland “ Star.’’
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17353, 19 May 1924, Page 6
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178ROAD RACING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17353, 19 May 1924, Page 6
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