MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 3

MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENTS.

. Sir, Would you • kindly grant me space to point out .to the. publici'the danger of motor-cars not-; sticking. closely. to - "their rules and regulations., 1: On;' Thursday aiternoon, .-January G,: : a six-year-old daughter o£ Mr. ,W, ; Hazlewood was run over-by a motor-car, which,,;had.it kept to- lte ingnt'.side,. "would; have completely avoided her.- Eyewitnesses JJJ j"®?' ?°Ji ttajelling ..at: air but that the driver, on seeing' tho child' emerge from a. gateway, to cross .'the road, sent his: car- over-to the '.wrong side,: with, the intention, of trying .to- avoid.the child,. but, instead he ran' over her, -.with' She : result that she is . now''in, the WelHospital,suffering, sion of' the ,brain arid spine.Now/ sit, 1 thinfc: tho council should do: something: tor .the residents along this road, , such as ■placing ■ lights for- night., use. 1 and: signs :lor- -to - warn: the. drivers" -to be extremely careful round: these bends. -I. might, state,' sir, .that::the':roiwl'Vhere the' accident; happened is narrow," has no footpath or night ", lights; and that there are four or : five, residents: living :n the ■ bend with young families who are- daily in' danger,, of. ■beipgV killed,' ,as eight',out .of fcvery ton' cars 'do not sound thoir : horns, and travel ; at such, a speed that' it 1 is -im-possible-for the: residents to:.get their numbers. This ,is the : third , accident within a few. yards ofieich other, a horse belonging ' to, -Mr.' E.: Bloomfield vjjeing ■run into, also a- dog" belonging to tKe - lato Mr. W. 'Crawford,; which .was instantly'Killed, and the, above accident,' which, - I hope, you will bo so kind as to publish ■for - ■ THE . MOTHER AND FATHER 01? V THE INJURED LITTLE GIRL.