PATROLMEN'S DUTIES

Shannon News, 31 January 1928, Page 1

PATROLMEN'S DUTIES

INTERESTING INCIDENTS. Th, ? . Automobile Association, London, employs a number of road patrols to render assistance to its members should they be held up by a mishap to their cars and has issued a circular telling of various incidents in which the patrols have figured outside their regular duties- .. One patrol while -rendering mechanical assistance to a motor-van on a hill, realised that a lorry coming down the hill was •'Cut of control. He fiimn,'d on the footboard of the run- ! away lorry as it passed him, grasped (he steering wheel and applied the brakes, preventing collision with the other vehicles on,the hill. He then rendered first-aid to the driver, who, after losing control had jumped out of the vehicle. Another patrol assisted in saving by first aid and artificial respiration two boys who had fallen into a river. Both were revived, although one had been in the water about .ten minutes. The patrol was publicly thanked for his services. A patrol upon hearing at midnight that a large tree had been blown down during a ga)e\ remained on duty until 5.30 a.m., assisting in removing the tree and clearing about 3cwt. of rock from the road. He resumed his ordinary patrol duties later in the morning. t Yet another man patrolling- his beat alter a gale saw a number of telegraph poles loaning dangerously towards a road. He immediately reported the road danger to the P ost office telegraph authorities, and Hnes- ! men were promptly sent out and put the poles in order. n