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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932.
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
ACCIDENTS WHY AND HOW had doen wat wish to be passed blindly, and discovers too late that
THEY OCCUR.
MOTORISTS SHOULD REALISE THE DANGER OF TAKING CHANCES.
TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED: NEVER
RELY ON THE OTHER MAN.
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NO CHANCES.
and unpardonably accelerates as you something or yomebody occupiad draw level; or pomo fool looms the patch of read which he assum
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THE CRASH.
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"AEROPLANE, USED TO 03: SERVE CAR'S PROGRESS,
Once more a British light car haar
spood Driving a 9 hp Riley tourer, Qozden Collins the wollt known South African racing mo torist, has just broken the Durban
On the first occasion he knocked covoring over 400 miles of very bad roads at 45 mp.h. On the Intent attempt, he averaged no less tha 56 rapih and thus acquired the record for cars of unlimited size: Until Collins showed what could be done with an 1,100 0:0 British car, this record had stood to the credit of, high-powered Americans care for many years.
A novel feature of the attempt was that the motorist's progress was observed the whole time from the air. At the conclusion of the ep the aeronlane went ahend and os aviators landed and officially. recorded the time of the car's arti
tip from behind the bend a fiftyed to be clear. When fog smirches LONDON POLICE TOLD" TO To overtake under such. sircum his windscreen and casts back a stances is taking a chance!! dazzling blanket of yellow light from his headlamps, he will push TOWNS AND CITIES. ·
on much too fast into the unknown.
Special attention is to be pai i" ahend, Or, becaitse nothing has by the Metropolitan Police to en In towns and cities every persOI on the pavement is a potential ever emerged from an awkward forcing the law regulating the THREE WHEELS, 3 H.P. HALF Proved its amazing reliability and poril. Every one of them know side road which he has crossed at speed of heavy road vehicles in that it is suicidal to step of the speed a hundred times, he will as London. Ekerb without a glance at the traffic:sume that nothing over emerges Sir, Harbert 'Samivel, the Home"
A Birmingham firm of nayete to Jahannashury record for the seeing that over 200,000 people gommally sane user for once takes but pedestrians are sometimes lost and perhaps may even Secretary, made that announcement builders has thrown
abombshell 9000nd time in a week. were involved in road accidents in a slight chanen;
I thought, and stop casually into omit the shrisk of 'n klaxon which in the House of Commons in reply unto the commercial vehiclb world-7 minutes off the light car record England during 1901, every motorist.
the traffe stream. Or the car is might mitigate his folly.
to a questioner: He said that the it has produced a light motor oar ought to be conversant with the
Apparently alone Ou
«Commissioner of Police had issued rier which is cheaper by halfy in principles of safety fit and
orders to the affect stated.." It follows that the sane and ex- road; the driver wishes to fight a
almost every respect than any or with the necessary provedure when, perienced road user should always cigarette and swerves as he doôs
Excessive speed by heavy comdinary delivery truck yat bull mishaps occur, to him personally. make allowances for other people, inconscious that a fast cur is upes a moment at which a crash moreinl and other vehicles is to be This new machine is a shree Comparatively few accidents are and avoid the taking of changes, attempting to pass him without inevitable and gyen than the stopped. Their speed will be wheeled nscribable to shery reckless spend in other words, he should drive hooting. Intense concentration wied man possesses certain advan-checked by motor, patrols and by strength it will carry half a ton that is, to some motorist possessed
the only pasports to safety in the forms of accident which should be rond. These steps will be taken at home at only £ss completo, is tax Fund a never-failing vigilance are | tager over a fool. There are four foot police on certain stretches of with ease and yet it is priced at of a fast vehicle overdriving it at
road nowadays, and even thest the public risk. Perfectly honest
when any conceivable irregular intervals and in any load at only four pounds per annum
Fand will operate on less than men will normally ascribe their
qualities may not veit us unless alternative exists. It is obviously cality where from information re-penny per mile. Third party in misfortunes to the other foul" approaches stationary "bus imagination to picture the possible collide with a human being. When As the purpose of these measures
they are coupled with sufficient better to hit a stone wall than to ceived it appears to be necessary. nn such ascriptions are usually halted at a pickup points on just..
!rquntry" road. The ponducton and
aberrations of the thoughtless, somebody must be hurt, the injury is not to neutro a number of con- An nes of curelessness by passengers ought not to assume that
should be limited to the smallestvictions added Sir Herbert, pedestrian, avelist, Horse-driver, or the road is alear and emerge in
RECKLESS DRIVERS. number of persons When a car is "but to provant accidents, although it employs a motor cycle cowled "tai encloses the motor vehicle makes an nouident caniously from behind the bus. Quite good drivers normally collido head-on with even so un-making a statement, which I hope wise it is built on car principles saddles, if an assistant is to be
gladed with safety glass it can, grateful for the opportunity type engine, and gear-box. Other unit and gearbox, the saddle-or.. inevitable, allowing for the general! He may pass such as at speed cake chances of a somewhat more yielding an obstacle at a stone wall will be taken as a warning by those with a robustness of frame more carried-are mounted on this tall aumosphere of the road, This a thousand times without incident. criminal character.
'atmosphere "" includes an averOn the 1001st occasion the condue this are common at nighs and incupant except the driver, provided sation of driving
Examples of without serious injury to any ce concerned and will lead to a
joften found on heavy commercial and dashboard, safety glass windscreen and hood protect driver age speed of 15-20 miles an hour tor is busy helping an old lady with fog. A driver whose vision has imat the speed is not absurd Scoondly, speeds in London.
at excessive
The three disc wheels are wrran- and passenger. The van is lo ged two in front and one behind. cated forward between the fron in ordinary sown traffe, en over a basket, und some passenger toeg dazzled into a whirl of golden a head-on collision with anotherdersfield): Have similar instro powerful frame is cross braced for and the other closed vane! nga speed of 30-40 miles an hour (lindly emassen the road! There; blog does not always stop,”
Mr Mabane (Libat, Had A car type front axle with bront-wheels, and two types of bodywork whool braken is uxd, and the are available, one w open truck on the open road, and a generalfore, such buses should be passed cannot for the moment see where na alternativa exists, because the
He fast vehicle should be avoided if tions been sent to the provinces expectation that other rood wers | Hlowly and with caution.
Sir Herbert Samuel: I have in Or the near edge of the road, is, or speed of the other vehicle lends in other districts of the steps taken, kuow their "daty and perform it; Lend locus when and there is whether, it is clear of perambalaforca to the impact.
formed the chief officers of police, In this atmosphere accidents crop, ample space po overänak the next
in London. I cannot give them in tors and cyclists; but instead of up when the other road user me.
ear ahead which is not moving stopping till he recovers the leat mentarily forgets his duty, OF fayb But once in a while the car faculty of sight, he will drive, on
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with genuine restraint and refuse to avail himself of his full rights A thousand opportunities for such restraint becur in every long drive
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MOTORDOM PRESENTS
If two ears mert head-on when both cars tro travelling at 30
Sir Herbert Samuel: The ques m.ph., the impact is approximate of course, motor cycles are subject tion relates heavy vehicles, but, ty comparably with that of a car to restrictions, and suitable men moving, at 60 m.ph hitting a stond (sures will Ke taken. wall. So if one driver can dodge the other, and hit a whlt instead. b may have the force of the im pect; and if he can hit "thorn hodes which will give," he may edures it till further. Thirdly, ranaize is a specially perilous form of accident. Capsizes no naually provoked by running a side pair of wheels up a bank, or down a hanie or by violent braking, on slippery surface. Fourthly, firendde. special terrors to any cash. Struc turally, the risk of fire is reduced By strn petrol tank, and in time the law may enforce this position. Tactically, the risk of fire is minimised by diving for the igni tions switch when any form of crash scema to be imminent.
WITNESSES...
The Snancial and legal aspects, of accidents must not be forgotten, In this connection the evidence of tie participants is never necepted by courts na its face value, and witnove ane invaluable. One trained witness is worth thres qrqual spectators The names and addakasen of all witnessow should be nacured. If a policeman can be braight up before any of the zehicles aro moved his trained mind will automatically record the saliont facts-positions, wheel werks location of the wreckage, Brides on. A camera can often ba of road servios; in ita absence a rough sketch with measurements is fusafält sa M
SOBRIETY."
Bobriety counts in these days a driver should not drink, even in moderation, until driving is nyer for the day. Ono, cocktail or a single glass of bear has often pro- duead auspicions of drunkenness when a nervous person, has been upset by acriah. In some cases the clock, provides valuable facts. I you left an hotel at 10 km and The accident qegurred at 10.45-œmi sighteen miles away" you cagnot have been 'speeding. But the trad protection consists in druthless re- fusal to take any chances at all...
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