GOVERNOR BLAMES "AVERAGE" DRIVER FOR ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 16

GOVERNOR BLAMES "AVERAGE" DRIVER FOR ACCIDENTS.

According to Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, "it isn't the criminal operator, the drunken driver, who is responsible for the greatest number of highway deaths. The trouble seems to be," he claims, "that the great body of motorists are careless and regardless of the rights of others. The man who is responsible for by far the greatest number of deaths and injuries on the highway is the average driver who is irresponsible, absent-minded, lacking in imagination."

A.A.A. ACTIVITIES.

Messrs. R. Champtaloup and H. | Butcher last week visited Waihi, where] th'ev addressed- a meeting of njotorists. j Mr.. J. Whitehead was agent j and, over 40 members joined up. A visit was also paid to Katilcati, where two grounds have been set apart for camps. One is on the Waihi side and the othex on the Tauranga side, about a mile or two out from Katikati and up from the main road. Hot springs are on the property and a swimming bath is to be found there. It promises to be a popular resort this summer. The signposting truck is now at Gisborne and will work back by way of Opotiki and Tauranga. The new local maps, on which a lot of time has been spent, will shortly be issued. They will show all runs within a .radius of 40 miles north and south of the city, and will give a wealth of information to motorists.