FAST DRIVING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20624, 27 May 1935, Page 5

FAST DRIVING.

Trenchant Criticisrp by Lord Hewart. QUICK AND THE DEAD. Some trenchant comments on fast motor-car driving and the rights of pedestrians were uttered by Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England, during his summing-up in a road deaths case. “ One is sometimes tempted to say in motor-car cases that there are those who divide the world into the quick and the dead —and those who are not quick will soon be dead,” said his Honor. But it is a sad look-out for those of us who are getting on in years if, crossing a thirty-foot road, we are suddenly to be overtaken by a motor-car travelling at sixty miles an hour on a dark night. I begin to think we must have subterranean passages for pedestrians and • make it a criminal offence for a pedesI trian to cross the street. “ There are some motorists who seem to drive on their hooters—* I am coming. Get out of the way.’ The hooter mav be a good servant, but it is a bad master. “ I daresay some of you have had some exciting experiences driving and being driven in cars. I remember once driving through Belgium at 60 or SO miles per hour, so that the telegraph poles seemed to be a continuous row i “ Very exciting and very exhilalat--1 in . g : ' was a ver y high-powered car ' with a very good chauffeur. But you pause to think the next day. Suppos- ! a had run out. Suppose some- ! body had been minded to cross the roa d. '* hat is the answer then? "That was a Sunday afternoon in j Belgium This was a January evening I in a built-up area not far from Worthing. If there are not children running out, there may be very short-sighted people; there may be cripples crossing the road. It is not unlawful to do so ! yet.