ONE-HEADLIGHT CARS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 2

ONE-HEADLIGHT CARS

A DANGER TO OTHERS. Night-driving motorists fall into three classes: those with too much light and glare, those with enough iight porperly directed, and those with insufficient light. Local bodies are giving due attention to the motorists in the first elass, which is the greatest numerically, and. a fine service would be done to road users if an attem.pt were made to round up the drivers in the third class, those who see no danger 1 in using motor cars which have only one effective headlight. This type of thoughtless driver is increasing in numbers, and experienced motorists will say that there are more cars with one headlight on the roads this winter than for several years past. It is an offence to drive a car having only one headlight in use, and any motorist should know why two such lights are imperative. There are many cars which are driven with one headlight working on the left-hand side only. Such equiment gives no indication of the width of the vehicle to an approaching driver, who might, easily enough, take up more roadway space than usual under the false idea that a car with one headlight is a motorcycle. If the one working headlight is on the right-hand side the danger is minimised, though it does not dispose of the fact that one headlight, no matter where it may be placed, is a breach of the Lights on Vehicles Act. There is a growing carelessness among drivers in observing the lighting laws, and the f ault under notiee is one important phase of it. Safety 1 for the motorist, the pedestrian and • the cyclist depends on proper illumination of the roadway, and one head- 1 light, or two parking lights, or one' head light and two parking lights, will not supply the necessary light to al- ' low one to drive in fullest safety.