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WOMEN DRIVERS

MORE CAREFUL

THAN MEN.

SURPRISES OF A U.S. SURVEY.

Women in America" are enröful motorista than men,

จ

more

A motor-car colliding with an obstacle at 60-in.p.h. has the saine capacity for inflicting, damage as car driven off the top of a sky- scrapper 120ft. high.

Sunday in the black day of the

week for motoring.

The dangerous age for driving is under twenty.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY MARCH 15, 1932

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

in a non-fatal accident for eighty- six licensed and in a fatal accident for every 3,858 ·licensed.

Which seems to prove that in, the United States at any rate,

woman aro the MOTO pareful

drivers.

The period of discretion in cart driving does not begin in most cases until the age of thirty is reached.

The accident rezort of drivers under

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and 6 am, when streets and high- ways are loast used. It is suggest- ed that the high death rate between these hours, is due to the light. hearted abandon with which car

owners drive home from parties and

other festivitice,

Motoring beginners are not ac dangerous as drivers with a year's experience.

It is shown that of per cent of twenty is shown to be 30 per cent. the drivers involved in accidents in

worse than that, of drivers from 1001 which resulted in death or twenty io twenty-nine years of non-fatal injuries had more than

one your's driving experianes!

age.

From forty to forty-nine years of

age seems to be the most diserect period of a driver's life.

The Black Hour,

These and other highly interesting motoring facts are contained in 4.

Sunday is the worst day of the volume just published by and Ameri-week for accidents, and Saturday ean insurance company.

comes next. This, it is stated, is

Here is

news that will duo to the fact that traffic on Sun please women drivers:-

day is mostly away from big towns, where some degree of regulation iɛ exercised.

soine

A malé driver" was involved in a personal injury accident for every twenty-one male drivers licensed;

is a non-fatal nevident for every

Ay to the time of day for accident frequency, the black hour, in the

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£500,000,000 a Year.

Drivers with only three months'j experience haite an excellent re- cord; with three to six months' ex-

perience the standard of care falls

off, and after a year's experience drivers who imagine they know all about the art take risks-and send up the accident rate.

The cost of accidents to isisust

azce companies in the United States in 1931 was £500,000,000. This is more than the annual cost

of public school education in the

p.m., when most accidenta occurred; country average yearly fine loss- A woman driver was involved in but actually more deaths resulted incomprehensible "wealth (necording a personal injury accident for every Letoon 6 and 7 p.m.

to the document) that could be put ighty-five women driver licensed, i Another fatal period is between 1 to better use.

ROAD AND RAIL "WAR."

THE TURNPIKE TOLLS PARALLEL.

ON THE ROAD.

THE AUSTIN SIXTEEN,

throttle and ignition controls are now of the finger-tip pattern on the centre of the steerling wheel with the headlight dipper. The Burnham saloon sent me has d'alid-

A False Argument.

Road users, say the railway man- agers, should bear, the whole coat of the roads in proportion to their uas, but, according to the Royal Commission, the total annual cost A "twin top " gear-box, similar of the ronds is £80,000,000, towards to that recently introduced for the Four large railway containora

which the motorist finds £20,000,000 Austin Twelve-Six, is now avail mointed on motor lorries are tour-

and the rätapayer £40,000,000; able as a £10 extra for the Sixteen. ing England to "demonstrate their"

therefore the ratepayer as such With the improvement this ear, capacity for moving the household should be relieved of this £40,000,000 four yeare one of the most popular goods from one home to apother, which should be found by the and satisfactory of light sixes, open, at under £300.

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either by road or rail. Since the container spatein was advocated by Mr. A. W. Gattie many years be love the war, its adoption now is us evidence of enterprise, not parti "ularly striking. But as an 6x

ample of what the relations between rönd and rail might be it is prefer able to the damaging and mislead gatements made last month to the Ministry of Transport by the railway managers.

for

ing roof and bumpers all round as standard and it is upholstered anHİ farnished in Arat-blas style. It's Fire; including the twin "top gear

bux, is £335. There are now also models of the Sixteen, closed and

motorist.

becomes as thoroughly up-to-date in That is a misleading quotation of all that matters as the youngest of the Royal Commission's repart. Fits rivais. Comparison of 1913 and 1928. Buri.On the road drivers have found gets shows that education, public the new gearbox a decided attrac- health, police have all increased tion. Since the Sixteen has MOTOR CYCLISTS!

their calls on the ratepayer to a bad four speeds, which were reason- greater extent than they ronds, and ably quiet, the constant mesh! that while the former have had

"silent third" does not, as in tho greatly increased Exchequer grants Twelve-Six, entirely alter the car's in aid of local expenditure, one character, but it is very well worth section of road users has not only the extra charge for the new saso If the two systems were at open found all the moneys of the Road of traffic, driving, using third prac war the railways could not have Fund, but large suma which have tically all the time, and for the ex- ploaded more desperately for poli- been ecized for general purposes, hilarating hill-climbs it makes

i tical help. Professing to be all for and in addition a special revenue possible. The engine has plenty of a fair field gad no favour, they of some £14,000,000 a year, which, "power for a full load is the capa

twenty-two licensed, and in a fatal United States is between 3 and euited States and five times the really, on the plen of old age and under the derating scheme, has re- cious body, and on this new third "rested interests," claim that their loved the railtys of much of their you have speeds up to a good 40 accident for every 723 licensed:

young

and vigorous challenger local taxation.

m.p.h. at command. should enter the ring with a band declared, the motorist's retors to Actually, as the Royal Commission

tied behind his back.

eho ozilwayman is: "Ian taxed to provements common to all the 1939 the extent of two-thirds of the cost Sixteens. The switches and gauges of the roads, and it is not my fault on the fully equipped dash are now that the money is not spent on neatly grouped in front of the]

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A Hundred Years Ago. As Colonel Hasking, of the So riety of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, pointed out there is enrious parallel to the present con- troversy in what happened just a hundred years ago, when, the rules re raed, the rond-owners were try. ing to stop the rise of thỏ railways,

A Select Committee of the Com

mons was appointed in 1839 to in- quire into the effect of railways on the turnpike trusts, and this in what, its chairman said: "Those who were suffering from the rail- ways had in great measure to blame themselves." The innkeepers, turn. pike trustees, and stage couch pro- prietors had done all in their power

to oppose the steam carriages, and so were like the man in the fable who killed the goose for the egg.

I they had allowed such carriages

to run at reasonable tolls (turn-

pike tools) many railways would never have been commenced."

This road Versus rnil problem is worldwide. The railways apparent. ly see no other alternative than a

#overs restriction on motor tran.

aport, as in Germany, or an increase in railway, freight rates as in the United States. In Australia and South Africa the German plan bas" been followed with results that are held up as a warning to us, Says Colonel Hacking: "The politically managed railways sit like 'the old man of the sea upon South Africa, and particularly upon its primary industries, and the State invest ments in railways (about £140,-. 000,000) are regarded as sufficient reason for depriving South Africa of good roade and cheap motor transport.",

To the conference of the various motor interests, shortly to be held, {"inky "bufely "do" "teft die vaak of Con

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