Tuesday, February 20, 1973
WARNING AGAINST OVERTAKING OR SPEEDING
Inside Lion Rock Tunnel
The Superintendent of the Lion Rock Tunnel, Mr. F.W. May, today
reminded motorists that there should be strictly no overtaking or speeding
inside the tunnel.
He said that besides being against tunnel regulations, such
senseless acts had often led to serious accidents.
For the first ten months of the current financial year (April 1972
to January 1973), there was a total of 153 accidents within the tunnel
area, with about 25 per cent of them happening inside the tunnel itself.
Eighteen of these accidents involved injuries to 26 people, he added.
Mr. May stressed that many of the accidents were obviously caused
by speeding or carelessness.
Citing one example, he said that a car stopping at the tunnel
toll booth to pay fees was rammed into from behind by a speeding car.
"Such accidents could obviously have been avoided if more care
had been taken", he said.
Mr. May said that the tunnel control staff had been paying close
attention to motorists who violate tunnel regulations.
Some 100 court summonses and 40 written notices had been issued to
motorists by the control staff during the first ten months of the current
financial year.
/"On top