ACCIDENTS AND SCORCHING

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 27, 29 November 1928, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND SCORCHING

It proves interesting.and suggestive to take a walk on a Sunday evening,«when

the traffic on the Hutt Eoad is lessening, and to contemplate the adventures and risks that motor passengers and pedestrians have taken throughout the day, when the City^Las largely emptied the section of its j)opulation, wno can take the road in any vehicle for a day in the country. To give instances is to relate on Sunday between the two Railway Stations of Petone and Lower Hutt, there was evidence of three- accidents that might have been attended with most serious results, to people who intend to take no risks in their Sunday diversions. In the locality of the Power Board office a vehicle has left the trace of having been driven from the road across the pathway and being brought to a stop by a substantial fencing poss which it has wrecked, into splinters., of matchwood. Further down the road in the vicinity of Udy Street a little girl was observed sweeping from the bitumen road a heap of glass that was shattered, as the result of- contact of a car with a lamp post, the vehicle apparently finished up its wrecking of- things by running into a fejtce on the opposite side of the road. There was another accident further down the road not unattended with injury, and with this evidence the traffic proceeds with an apparent unconcern at the risk taken- in running veliieles at an excessive speed, which is a breach of the law evidently overlooked because it is a Sunday, when the risk is the greatest. As we contemplate the scene we have attempted to describe, half a dozen or more of young I men on motor bicycles, simply fly at a scorching rate past us, and' at' a spe»=d as make it; safe to say that such recklessness would have resulted in effective punishment was evidence given a Magistrate. The question naturally enough occurs is to ask wliere are the officials to cheek this dangerous practice.