FURIOUS DRIVING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 7 December 1907, Page 2

FURIOUS DRIVING.

COMPLAINT AGAINST MOTOR CARS. TWENTY MILES AN HOUR ROUND CORNERS. Motor-cars have, of late becomefairly numerous in town, and to control their lise on the borough streets the Borough Council has made a by-law limiting the speed at which they may be run; but according to an indignant citizen who visited the “Times” office yesterday this by-law is more. -honored in the breach than in the observance. According to the citizen in question, lie had a very narrow escape from a serious accident yesterday. He was proceeding down Palmerston road away from town, and when just opposite the Cosmopolitan Club’s new building a motor car whizzed round out of Bright street at the rate of about twenty miles an hour. There was a pile of bricks in the road, leaving very little space lor vehicles to pass, and that there was not a serious accident was a miracle, says our informant. The citizen further stated) that while driving along the Makauri road in his buggy recently he met a motorist who, ‘lie states, was going at fully thirty miles an hour. He points out" that this high speed on the road in question is very dangerous. The road is narrow, and it would be very probable that a buggy when passing a motor-car going at high speed would be forced into the deep ditch beside the road. The caller said that in future lie would take' the trouble to take the numbers of cars which offended, and make a complaint to the police. He said that in 'his opinion drivers of cars which ran over people should be imprisoned for life. For the benefit of motorists and the public it may be well to recapitulate tlie chief section of the Borough motor-car by-law, which is as follows: No motor-car shall be driven round ally angle or corner of any street at a greater speed than five miles ail hour, or on any portion of a road where the driver cannot see the whole roadway for at_ least a hundred yards ahead of his car, or where there are two or more vehicles immediately preceding the car within a hundred yards of it, or where more than six persons are walking or standing immediately preceding tlie car oil the traffic portion of the road, the speed shall not ex r ceed five miles an hour.”