ROAD MANNERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1179, 5 July 1928, Page 15

ROAD MANNERS

Often Invite Trouble The number of accidents emphasizes the need for better driving and, greater consideration for other users of the road. Fully nine-tenths of the accidents that occur could be avoided if greater care was shown. TT is not that cars are driven too fast, tout simply that In most cases they are driven too carelessly. For instance, it is quite safe to pass a road entering* from the left at a speed of 20 m.p.h., so long as a wary eye is kept open for vehicles approaching- from that road, and the foot ready for the brake. Unfortunately, many drivers never prepare for danger until it is right upon them, and then promptly lose their heads. It is a very easy matter indeed to acquire the habit of cautiousness without any necessity for running at less than a good average speed. With the hundreds of new drivers that come on the road every year it is necessary to exercise increased care at all road junctions and crossings, and to show every consideration possible, while maintaining one's own right to the road, as, for instance, taking the right of way when on the right hand of a vehicle at a crossing.