NO LIGHTS.
VEHICLES ON PUBLIC ROADS.
A RISKY PROCEDURE
Complaint has beeii frequently made of the danger of unlighted vehicles proceeding along the roads at night. The danger is apparently becoming more real and very certainly is more frequent. On a motorist only narrowly missed colliding with a horse-drawn vehicle on the main Kihikihi road. They were proceeding in opposite directions, and a head-on impact was only narrowly averted. The horse-drawn vehicle had no lights, and hencj was not -lo'Jced until a few yards di-ii.irit. A count was made of the unlighted vehicles passing along the road, and nearly two dozen were counted within a very short space of time.
It is indeed a risky venture to discard lights when using the. public highways at night, remembering that traffic in this district is so steadily increasing. Apart from the danger to life, there is also the danger to property, and altogether the practice should be discontinued. A word of warning is timely, ere serious accident occurs.
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Waipa Post, Volume XII, Issue 943, 18 May 1920, Page 4
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166NO LIGHTS. Waipa Post, Volume XII, Issue 943, 18 May 1920, Page 4
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