THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1930.
MOTOR NOTES
REAL MENACE OF THE ROAD.
CORONER PLACES 90 PER CENT. OF BLAME ON "PEDESTRIANS.
WOMEN DRIVERS AGAIN.
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Mr. H. R. Oswald, the West "London coroner, who is shortly to retire from office, has conductêd be tween 2000 and 30,000 inquests "during the generation that he has
ocenpied the coroner's chair.
Mr. Oswald talked of past and present London traffic conditions, accidents, hansor cabs, ader women drivers, his 1,400 mile hali day tour by motor-ear and the fellow road-user who was rude to
him. He said :-
The best mannered and the most skilful drivers in London to-day are the ordinary bus, and taxicab drivers. Ta bath them it is their job in life-their living," They change gear more times in a day than a private car owner does' in a fortnight.
Owner-Drivers Third,
"Because, especially in London, they hardly ever go fast, they are at the top of any list for being con- neeted with the least number of fatal accidents. Some of these ao cidents do not concern their driv- ing. because many happen on the fotboard unknown to them at the time.
Yan drivers are second on my list and private enr owners come
next.
The number of women drivers has increased enormously since held my first inquest into a road nevident. My only comment on them is, that, given a clear, open road, women, are as good na most men but. place them in a sudden tight corner as may happen, to them every other ten seconds in London's streets-and they, Ipse their hands on the average and cause accidents.
**There are some excellent yourg wemen drivers whom I know per sonally, but they are exceptions One learned her driving as a heay lorry driver in London during the
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Men, on the whole, are care-i
I plice Do per cent, of the blame in fatal accilenta connected with private cars on the pedestrian, who has still failed to realise that Cros ing a lasy road requires his or her full mental-and in a lesser degree physical abilities.
On Bully in 1,400 Miles.
Men are as bad as women whet erosang roads in London. Pre- ['geenpalion is the greatest dange
for a destrian.
The pedestrian is the last on my list, and is the cause of most fatal accidents. Many people take. no notice of a hooter!
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Mr. Oswald added:—
And if the speed limit is abolish- as is proposed, there will be more and more work for London coroners.
"It must not be forgotten that hansom cabs travelled at little over twelve miles an hour, and there were few intal necidents. The re the speed the greater risk of life,”
VICAR AND A ROAD CRASH.
"REFUSED TO RENDER ASSISTANCE,
near
The Vicar of Marstow, Ross-on-Wye, was criticised by a coroner's jury recently for failing
reader assistance to a man who had been fatally injured in a motor- cycle accident outside his house,
As far as the manners of the road are concerned, taking every thing into account, there is not a lot at which to grumble. 1 and a 1 mile holiday tour in the North a short time ago, and drow my own car all the way. Only one was I hullied, and that was when
The jury added the follow- I. having made" sure there wils ne body behind for at least a hundred rider to their verdict: We yards, stopped without signalling desire to add a rider to our that intention. A car passed slow yerdict that we consider the action
of the parson
was anything but by me a few seconds later, and the creditable. He surely could have owner tried to bully me.
rendered assistance of some kind at such a time. I am sorry," ntkled do you own the road ?* That the foreman," to have to say this, the only instance of endeness dur but it is the, unanimous verdict of | mg 1.400 miles on the road.
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The evidence disclosed that a callous, as far as my experience young motor-cyclist was riding to goes. They do not run down pedes work at 3 a.m. on the morning of trians and forget the fact a fer the accident in the greatest ale minutes later. They are human. ever known in the district. In the have seen then treinble with eme midst of blinding lightning and hail, tion as they gave evidence before he collided with a G.P.0, mail yan. me concerning the dreadful moment when they unfortunately ran down pedestrian.
I replied, Well, my lord duke,
car owners are not
The driver of the van stated that when the accident occurred he rush- ed to Marstow Vicarage, which was "Motor-cycle accidents -I an only fifteen yards away, The Vicar, speaking of Londen roads in everythe Rev. William Rowlanda, caine case are responsible for still more to the door, but refused to render deaths, having regard to their proany assistance, saying, "I am not portion in numbers of private cars. dressed. He did not come near Their speed, which is much the scene of the accident until an greater than that of private cars, hour and a-half later, by which their danger..
Fillon Riding.
time the man was dead. The next nearest house was 600 yards away.
Nothing interests the public so much," said the Coroner, Alderman | Wallis, as a parson, a doctor, or a lawyer doing something which he I think we have
"I do not think it is unsafe for girls to ride pillion, and I, for one, would do nothing to stop them. But let them ask their men friends, ought not to do. out of respect of their own lives, all got our impression about Mr. unt to go too fast. To have twa Rowlands's action, but that this is give or the pillion of a motor-egelane of the times when we should is obviously unsafe.
restrain our ferlings,"
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JUST AS 'SIGNAL IS ABOUT TO BE GİVEN MOTHER CALLS TO WAIT, SHE THINKS SHE LEFT A PRESENT IN HER BUREAU
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AT LAST ALL IS READY. DAD IS ABOUT TO THROW DOOR OPEN. INSTEAD HE CALLS THROUGH KEYHOLE FOR A PENCIL. HE'S FORGOTTEN TO MARK ONE PRESENT.
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MOTHER RETURNS AUNT ABBIE WONDERS IF SHE WILL HAVE TIME TO TELEPHONE.
ONCE MORE THE ALL READY SIGNAL SOUNDS, AND IT IS DISCOVERED. THAT MOTHER HAS DISAPPEARED. FRANTIC CALLS.
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
"Now about my obesity, doctor ?** "Diet."
"And my grey hair "Dye it."
Householder: "Eere, what d'you mean by putting all this beastly stuft in front of my gate":
Workman, "Ain't nowhere else to put it."
Bachelor: "Is there hot water in your house ?"
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Nickelpinch: "If you spend so much time at golf you won't have anything laid" aside for a rainy day."
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50.-Осеала.
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57.-Alwaya
59.-Symbol for nickel. 01-Span of life.
63.-Gaelic.
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Show Boat," Selection, The New
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Cloze Props" (Baas in English with Piano) and My Old Shako," Harry Dearth. Little Pal" and Why Can't You," Comedienne in English with Orchestra, Gracie Fields. "Eleanor (Jesie L. Depan) and Out of the Dusk to You" (Dorothy Lee), Victor Salon Orchestra. Singin' In The Rain" Fox Trot Bid You Mother and Mine." Fox Trot (From Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer Picture "Holly. word Revue of 1929), Nat Shikret and the Victor Orch. Bondway Melody" and "The Wedding of the Painted Dell? (Frovi "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picturn"Broadway Melody). Charles King. "You Were Meant For Me," Fox Trot" (From Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Picture "The Broadway Melody " Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra. "Zampa," Overture (Herald), The Band of HIM. Coldstream Guarda.
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The Music of Ethelhert Nevin:
Victor Salon Orchestra. "A Day In Venice "; 1. Dawn : 2. Gondoliers; 3. Venetian. Love Song; and 4. Good Night, "Narcissus" (From "Water Scenes","Country Dance," A Sherpgerd's Tale" (From "In Arcady") and Lullaby" (Brom In Arendy).
"At Twilight, Oh That We Two Were nying" and "At Rest" (From Sketch Book), Wilfred Glean,
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"My Desire"Mighty Lak A Rose," Lewis James, Tenor, Olive Kline, Soprano and Vic- cor Salon Group.
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Every Night" and "A Life Leason," Edna Kellogg, Sop.- Victor Salon Orchestra. "Little Boy Blue," "That Night
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The Woodpecker." **Barchetta," "Serenade " and
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Somewhere A Voice Is Calling " (Eileen Newton - Arthur F. Tate) and Serenade" (Schu bert Crawford), Jerse Crawford (Played on the Wurlitzer Or- gan). Thoughts Of You" (Novello) and "That Is How I Feel About
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