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SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932,
SAFETY SIGNS THAT CRY "WOLF.”
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NEW RULE IN MOTOR SPEED.
No Damages for Crash into Unlighted Car.”
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negligence on the ronds was given a pedestrian, who was net require An important ruling respecting was unlighted. It might hayo bec recently by the Court of Appeal. to carry a light, or (as in the Ne- Langely Baker,
A Dorking motor-cyclist, J. Forest) it might have been cattl September with
collided last People must go at such a paso the an unlighted they could pull and Sons, Ltd., and was awarded vehicle belonging to E. Longhurst range of vision."
up within the
damages.
Lords Justices Lawrepe Greer concurred. This judgment the Appeal Court Effect of the Decialom. recently set aside.
An official of the Automobile A Lord Justice Scrútton said: "If sociation told the Newe-Chronic people who ride motor-cycles go at that he considered the ring such a pace on dark nights that be "very far reaching." they cannot pull up when they soo "It will have to be studied close something they must take the con-ly to see what effect it will hav could pull up in ten yards. His of the motor lighting regulation sequences of their own negligence. on the motorist," he said, "but
On Baker's own evidence he seems to me to strike at the rod lamp enabled him to see a vehicleIf no rear-light is not be take 30 yards away.
into consideration, what is the us "Either ho was going so fast of making people have rear light that he could not pull up within his at all? Why should range of vision or he was not look-worry about his rear light if h
■ motoris In either case he was negli- knows that it will not be take gent.
Into consideration when na 30 "It was no use saying the vehicle leident happens?
BY SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL Lettera about safety on the roads illuminated continue to reach me in numbers should be placed in a conspicuous "cross-ronds" sign which make it impossible to dia-position to indicate "dend slow cuss all
the useful suggestions and look round the corner before made, though as a matter of in- you cross." terest 1 should like to pass
Another letter received express- every iden which contributes con-es the opinion that the abolition structively to a subject of burning of the speed limit in towns has importance,
The main fact which emerges increase in the number of acci- been responsible for a part of the from the correspondence is that dents, and suggests the imposition the public has awakened to very of a limit of 25 miles an hour. serious concern nt the growing i numbers of road accidents, and, cause I do not believe that the I do not altogether agree, be- whether motorists or not, every average speed at which cars are one of my correspondents agrees driven has actually increased-in on the principal point that nothing towns, must be left undone to reduce ac-Traffic Act became effective.
at least since the Road cidents.
One letter speaks of the diaposi- think, due to the very much larg- The increase in accidents is. I tion shown by so many motoristser number of cars in use and to to ignore the caution "Dend Slow" the fact that very many of them which is often painted on the road are being handled by drivers with at the approach to cross roads. no previous road experience and
The writer tells me he livesittle sense of responsibility. where a sabsidiary road crosses a It cannot be too thoroughly ap:ing. main thoroughfare, and he, a mo-preciated that speed by itself has. torist himself, is appalled at the no relation to dinger. It is speed
in which he sees
cars in relation to trafic conditions driven without the slightest re-which may constitute danger, and gard to the danger of which they too often docs. The point I want to are adequately warned by a con- make is that a speed of 10 miles an spiesous eaution painted on the hour may be highly dangerous in road.
certain circumstances, and there fore, in such conditions, a limit of 25 m.p.h. does not help.
manter
fatalities.
I agree that far too many ears
POINTED MASCOTS
ratade.
BANNED.
the advice contained in the letter and if they wished to retain bird as mascots either set the buc so that the point did not protrud or made the beak of rubber, Privat
He tells me that during the eight and a half years he has lived at Lhe place there have been he tween forty and 6fty accidents,are habitually driven too fast in A letter deprecating the use of motorists, however, not always about a dozen of them involving busy streets, and I agree that such painted mascots which projected ware of the danger, have not bees fast driving, which connotes dan-beyond the radiator was last year cyclist died as the result of a wound so sensible, and recently a motor Unfortunately there are tooger, should be put down with a sent by the Ministry of Transport inflicted by a pointed mascat-fitted many irresponsible drivers of cars, strong hand, but it cannot be sup drivers who take every risk with pressed by the imposition of a fractures and Traders. The hint
to the Society of Motor Manu-te a rudintor cap. blind faith in their luck. As he specific speed limit. rightly says, nobody would care Examination of Drivers,
was given that, unless the use of motorists to removo mascota of this An appeal must be made to all much if only their own necks were
these mascots was stopped a re-type, or to get them as that the at stake, but it is quite another very often made to me is that he-ation to prohibit them would be spike does not project. There are
Another suggestion which is matter that they are a danger to fore a licence to drive is issued the in the event of a collision, or even their disadvantage being that the The danger to pedestrians brackets to enable this to be done, every other user of the rond. candidate should be put through I agree that this type of reckless-an examination for competency.
to a mechanic while working ness should be put down very firm-
I do not think that this would sharp beat, for instance, is obvious, Nevertheless, every effort must be the ear, of a bird mascot with a before the bonnet can be spened. un mascot probably has to be moved ly, but as a preliminary to any help us much. organised police action I should the novice is ultra-careful, and if and the action to stop the fitting exerted to remove danger. Thought-
As a general rule. like to see an approach to unit were possible to obtain a close of such ornaments was formity in the system of giving analysis of road accidents I be-
Manufacturers, of course, followed retained.
wise. Jessness causes these mascots to be warning of dangerous approaches.lieve we should find that a very I am afraid there is a tendency small proportion is due to sheer on the part of authorities in many incompetence of new drivers. It places to overdo these warnings, is when the novice has emerged Every one of such notices should from the chrysalis stage and ima- really mean what it indicates. The giues himself or herself a fully moment any warning system is grown butterfly that danger is overdone it becomes worse than likely to accrue, and by that time useless.
any imaginable examination could be casily passed
Those Triangles,
As an example of what I mean,
There is another point. too! we need only go back to the "red Some of the most reckless and triangle" of the Motor Car Act. As inconsiderate drivers. I have ever soon as the Act faid down that the come across would pass any exam- triangle was to be taken as a sig-driving with one hand. Further. ination with their eyes shel, and nal that extra caution was neces sary, the country was simply plas-more, a scheme of comprehensive tered with these signs. Not only deal of money and would entail examinations would cost a great did local attthorities erect them broadcast, but numberless land-officials, which would be highly un- the creation of another army of property abatted upon a road putterially to safety.
desirable without contributing mu them up on any or no protext.
The consequence was that the
owners and householders whose
Better than all the examinations
red triangle ceased to have any would be the elimination from
meaning; it was a case of crying among the ranks of motorists of wolf when there was no wolf.
the proved reckless, inconsiderate There is certainly a tendency to driver by depriving, him of the day towards the over-use of white right to drive. Unfortunately, lines and cautionary signals gen. this cannot be done until he has erally, which is to be deplored. It been convicted of dangerous driv is too much to ask that every suching. quite possibly involving in- sign should be submitted to a cen- jury to someone. If it were made tral authority before it is erected town. however, that the powers or painted on the road, but I would of licence suspension or complete appeal to road authorities to ex-withdrawal with which the law has ercise common sense in sanction-med the magistracy would in- ing them.
variably be exercised, there would
I should like to see every danger be far more care taken than there point in the country marked, for that would be a contribution
A Matter of Milestones, safety, but I certainly do not want
to
i wonder how many milestones
to see road warnings brought in-on English roads are accurately to contempt by their erection in representative of the distances laces where they have no possi- I between them? I agree that it is ble application.
Signs Easily Missed,
a matter more of interest than of importance, but I do not believe half the stories told by our mile stones.
If none but really dangerous points are marked with cautionary I have a suspicion that when algns, I agree that penalties for most of the distances were mea disregarding them should be heavy, sured in the old posting days, so as to discourage the habitually when fares were charged at so dangerous driver,
much per mile as indicated by the One of the troubles of promis-milestones, very few miles ran to cuaus use of such signs is that in the full 1,760 yards.
so many cases it is difficult to ! I cannot find any records of a prove danger, whereas by their comprehensive checking of these judicious use to ignore them is to distances in modern days. So create a prima facie case of neg- far as I am aware, it is no part of ligence at the very least.
the duty of the Ordunce Survey to
I am not very keen about warn- Ivouch for the accuracy of the dis ings painted on the road surface. tances between milestones. With They are too apt to be overlooked, the speedometer dead steady, often especially at night, but the stranger there is a substantial difference. in the district, to whom they are The varying distances to any parti most necessary.
cular place shown on country sign-
I should prefer, on the less fre-posta is a joke, but one doos ex- quented roads, a reflecting sign alpect the milestones to get close the roadside, while in towns an to the truth.
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