Children on Roads.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20340, 25 June 1934, Page 6

Children on Roads.

Dear Sir,—What School or parental disci pline can be exerted on children nowadays to make them walk carefully and considerately on the roads? Very little. T say, from expedience. On Thursdsy a girl of about ten. the custodian (or she should have been) of some younger children, deliberately choose to run almost in front of my car with her eyes open, creating a panic among the others, and scattering them in a manner that compelled me to skid my car to be sure of tjieir safety. This was on the North Belt. On the same day, in the same locality another youngster, a girl of eight or riine, took no notice of the danger of the road, and walked negligently and contemptuously in front of my car. If children are so brainless as to court diar aster cheekily like this, I, for one, will never read of a street accident without thinking that the child was most probably to blame, and I think most parents will agree with me in their hearts. I say advisedly, from long experience, that I would never charge any motorist with negligence for running down a child in Christchurch.—l am, etc., A POTENTIAL JUROR.