OFFENDING CYCLISTS
INO REAR REFLECTORS "DANGER TO MOTORISTS The distance of the suburban -areas from the business centre of Whakatane has given thisrtown an abnormally large number, of cyclists, many of them infringe the by-laws to the clanger of themselves and to the chargrin of motorists who may be driving behind them at- night. There is a growing number of cyclists who still fail to possess rear reflectors, and still others! who offend by not even attaching the regulation lamps. It is patent to all who have a knowledge of night driving that it "is most difficult to pick up an object to the side of the car and out of rays of the headlamps, in is-almost impossible to see a •cyclist under certain conditions unless his machine is illuminated and mounts a rear reflcctor, until the car is a few feet distant. It should not be necessary to emphasise the above but apparently there are still a number of thoughtless riders who either consider the regulations unnecessary or who repose so much faith in their own abil ity as experts that they are above •observing them.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 205, 28 August 1940, Page 5
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187OFFENDING CYCLISTS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 205, 28 August 1940, Page 5
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