MOTOR NOTES.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 7

MOTOR NOTES.

AGAINST DIMMING.

A MOTORIST’S COMPLAINT. The Spotlight Fiend. A correspondentt who signs himself ‘Anti-Dim” writes as follows to * ‘Chassis” of the Christchurch Sun:— Sir, —On a recent Sunday evening, as I was motoring along Healey Avenue, a motorist deliberately switched his spotlight on me, and kept it there until we passed. As the dazzling light qu. stion is still baffling the motoring public, is it not time that the senseless practice was put down with a firm hand? I am only drawing your attention to this one instance, as warning to the culprit, as one of my friends managed to note his number, which I could hand in to the Automobile Assoiiation, if necessary. Talking to a prominent doctor a week or so back, I was informed that he had recently attended two pa ients, run down and injured by motor's s who had dimmed their head- , lights. In both cases the victims were : riding unlighted bicycles. The driver of one car told Irm that he knew no- . thing until he heard a crash of some- j thing against his radiator; that something was his patient. The second case j was similar—ihe driver saw nothing. I There are many more accidents of j th s nature than we realise. Such cases \ as I have quoted do not often get into the papers. In my humble opinion, this dangerous practice of dimming should be made criminal.