CYCLISTS AND REAR LIGHTS.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—While Mr Semple is on the Job oleaning up the roads for the safety of everybody, why not do something about the potential suicide — the oyclist? There have been several letters appearing In your paper lately about the menace bicycles are at night without being properly equipped with rear lights. Every motorist will endorse the remarks and tell you that a oyollst may just as well try to commit suicide as attempt to ride a bioycle with only a reflector for protection from the rear. If a oar 1* coming from behind on an angle a refleotor is useless, and a motorist has no chance 'of seeing vehicles without a light when bright lights are coming towards him. If cyclists persist in this suioidal practice no blame should be attachable to a motorist If an accident occur*. Without compulsory rear lights for bioycles there is no safety on the road.—l am, etc., MOTORIST. Hamilton, June 25.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 9
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163CYCLISTS AND REAR LIGHTS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 9
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