REMARKABLE ESCAPE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1926, Page 10

REMARKABLE ESCAPE

ONE DRIVER DID NOT DIM

CAB SOMEBSAULTS OVEE BANK,

Whether drivers should "dim" or not when meeting others at night is posiibly an arguable point, but there is not much argument as to whether the practice, either ono way or the other, should be universal. If both dim their lights, they are on an equal footjug, if neither dims the footing js equal again, but the trouble is that some motorists take no notice of the courtesy extended them by others meeting them at night time, and accidents happen. A few nights ago that very thing occurred a little this side of the Black Bridge, between Mungaroa and Akatawdra. A driver running towards tho city dimmed for the benefit of an outgoing driver, but that benefit was not returned to him. Accordingly he switched on again and saw immediately in front of him two people walking on the roadway. To avoid them there was only one course open, to swerve from the road and over an Bft bank. The driver took that course, and his heavy car, travelling at a country road speed, turned a somersault and landed with the wheels spinning in the air. Wonderfully good luck stood by the driver and his companion, and, though it was some timo before they could be released from beneath their car, they escaped with comparatively. slight injuries and severe Bhock.

There is another complaint in regard to certain, motorists who traverse the Mungaroa Hill length of roadway, that they altogether ignore the request—a reasonable one surely—that down cars should give way to up cars.