DUNEDIN’S EXAMPLE.
SENTENCES OF SIX MONTHS’ and nine months’ imprisonment have been imposed on Dunedin motorists in separate, but similar, cases in which death was caused by their negligence. These sentences will have a good effect. Every day in every city and town in New Zealand reckless driving is indulged in by a comparatively few motorists, who endanger the lives of other road users more than their own by their disregard of all rules and regulations. Punitive as well as deterrent sentences are called for in such cases; but it would be better' to have fewer cases of the kind by attacking the evil of reckless driving at its root. The average man sees one or two instances of reckless driving daily in any New Zealand city, and what the layman can see the traffic inspectors should see. In the interests of road safety it would be wise to withdraw all traffic inspectors from routine duty at intervals for an intensive campaign against reckless drivers, and the result would soon be apparent in a reduction of the number of motoring fatalities.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18992, 11 February 1930, Page 8
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181DUNEDIN’S EXAMPLE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18992, 11 February 1930, Page 8
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