1928-09-22 — Page 11

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HOME NIGHTMARE

FOR MOTORISTS.

200 Offences in Motor

Traffic Legislation.

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AOT ON NEW STANDARDS.

American tourists are very wel come in Canada,

awful nightmare. By the law of and England to-day, If you own drive a motor-car you just face the appalling fact that it is possible for you

to commit nearly 200 offences.

Sir Arthur Spurgeon under- estimated the let according to a Scotland Yard official, who raid that, in his opinion the number of possible offences is nearer 300.

"It is impossible to estimato them," he said, "unicas, you put a staff on the job to go through the various Acts and regulations, ex- tending as far back no 1835, as well as all the orders that are always being made under those Acts."

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Ignorant of Risks..

I suggested that. if a motorist was liable to be prosecuted for all theas offences it seemed reason- jable to ask that at least he should know what the offences are, but short of a Herculean task, it appears that car owners will re- main in ignorance of the risks they run of falling foul of the law, far there is no concise lot in existence, Recording to the authorities.

An offcial at the A.A. head- quarters said: "Speaking very broadly, we publish a list of of- ences in our hand-book, but wo could not specify them all, or set them out. There is no convenient list, as far as I know, that gives all the offences, but the new law which has now been before Par- lament for some time will gather- all motoring legistation under one head, and it is about time that that was done."

According to the polico authoritien some motoring offences are fixed by the old Highways Aci of 1836. Then there are the Motor Car Act of 1909, and all the Orderi made thereunder, the Roads Act of 1920, the Road Trans- port Lighting Act of 1920, the London Traffic Act, which is ap plicable, to a radius of 25 miles around London, and a lot of legis- lation in the shape of Statutory Orders.

"Involved Regulations.** "To get a complete llat of the offences you would have to go all through these orders and acts," said the authority. "You could certainly consult the Metropolitan, Traffic Manual, but the most re- eent edition és 1922, and a vast number of orders have been made since then. To enumerate all the offences would need columns of a newspaper, because many of the regulations are involved, and the whole wording of the section would have to be quoted."

It was possible to obtain at Scotland Yard a list of the offences for which it has been stated the police will, in the first Instance, issue merely a warning.

"The question of issuing such a list is a matter for the Commis stoner only," said the official, “for, after all, an offence is an offence, and speaking for myself I am not prepared to say that any offence against the law would be dealt with by warning only."

Application at the Ministry of Transport was met with the reply, "It is a matter for the police."

How many of these 200 (estimat. ed) offences do you know, my fel- low motorists?

Magistrate's Complaint.

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Sir Arthur Spurgeon, Croydon magistrate: That list I aeferred to was handed to me by the police, and I afterwards hand- ed it back. It contained 88 pos- sible offences, but, of course, there may be many more. I do not know. There are about 20 head- ings, speaking off-hand, under': which you might put the majority of motoring offences brought be- fore the courts. The police may have selected 88 as those likely to be dealt with in the courts,

"The list shown to me had three schedules. Schedule A contained 35 offences, and for these there is no warning, but prosecution. Schedulo B, numbering 17 casas, will bo dealt with according to the clrcumstances. The police will use their discretion as to whether they will issue warnings or not Schedulo C, numbers 83 offences for which for the first offence tho. police will issue a warning.

"My chief complaint is this:

It is estimated that American who is to record these warnings, autoista, touring that country last and how will magistrates know? year, left behind around $117,000,- Scotland Yard will issue the warn- 000.

The number of tourists last yearings, but it will be unfair if the Increased 62 per cent, over the visi-warnings are to be reported. The tors of 1926 and Canada expects a man, after all, has not been con- further increase this year.

victed, but simply warned."

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

1928.

PASSING THE WINNING POINT.

Of 46 competitors in the International Road Race held re

The event, cently at Belfast, only 12 survived the struggle,

which was watched by over half a million people, was won by Kaye Don, the well-known British driver, with, a Bentley, The above picture shows the number of the winning car being

hoisted as Kayo Den passed the grand stand.

TECHNICAL TERRORS.

Motoring Fiction as She is Wrote..

Lately a lady novelist has been fined

For driving recklessly. Since she began her Carver, the fiction-writer is inclined

To deal with motors in a reckless manner.

The lady novellat, adaptive creature,

I should have thought by this time would arrive At what her "strong and silent" heroes teach her

About a motorcar and how to drive.

"The long, grey motor with the rakish bonnet

Ate up the road," How often have we read it! The differential willed 'neath its load

Of l-starred passengers." Has she not said it? "Our heroine, sensing a hidden turning

Impending in the offing, stopped her ears'

To drown the shrieks of maddened flywheels churning

And gnashing teeth that told of red-hot gears,"

The fiction writer often knows so much about

Extraordinary motor technicalities;

She throttles sparking plugs and throws the clutch about; Why, then, when faced with highway actualities.

Is it a wonder that she makes mistakes?

Experience in this instance coat too much. Why didn't she "switch off the vacuum brakes,"

"Retard the mixture" and "throw out the clutch?"

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