How Accidents Occur.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 366, 7 March 1932, Page 6

How Accidents Occur.

Dear Sir, —Why do so many accidents occur during the week-end? The answer \tas revealed on Sunday during a trip along the main North Road as far as Amberley and back. Too many drivers keep on the centre of the highway, despite what traffic is approaching, and some even crib a yard or two on the wrong side—for no apparent reason except to make dangerous nuisances of themselves. The worst offender is generally the callow youth type, long hair and short brains. One of this breed, one of your true motor hogs, came over a narrow bridge at an excessive pace driving a baby car. With colossal ignorance, he kept on well over the crown of the road and almost jammed other cars into the rails.

There are quite a number of these irresponsibles out on the highways during the week-end, and motor patrol officers should have power not only to hold them up but to yard them into some kind of car park till guardians can be sent for. In any case, it would be a safety precaution if some local authority put its inspector on to this type of offender.—l am, etc., F.W.B.