Careless Motoring.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13331, 21 March 1911, Page 6

Careless Motoring.

TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —It is with feelings of pleasure I have read your marked denunciation of careless motoring- in this town. This morning, cycling on my way to business, keeping to my left, as usual, I was met by a motor car tooting right in front of me, going at a fair speed. On my right were two drays loaded with gravel, on my left a man repairing the hose for the road repairs. Hero was a space of about nine feet —quite enough for a cyclist—but our motor friend must needs dash through, causing me to make a dash for the footpath to escape the car, which I did by a hair’s weadth, throwing myself off my machine in my effort to escape. “A miss is as good as a mile,” the old proverb says, so why need I write? It does not restore my nerves to calmness ami serenity, hut it may cause that motorist to risk running his car over rough gravel on the proper (left) side, rather than risk the life of a citizen on a humble push bike.—l am, etc., RESPECT FOR OTHERS. March 20, 1911.