WALKING ON ROADS

Shannon News, 10 February 1928, Page 4

WALKING ON ROADS

A cat., it appears, was the cause of a rather more than usually dangerous motor cra&h in England recently—a cat crossing tho road; not the motor coach driver; or the motor cyclist, who swerved to avoid the cat, which apparently reached the other side in safety.; It is obviously useless to blame or to reproach tho animal. But wc may say that it has a sort of symbolic importance.

The roads nowadays—the main roads—are no more'safe to walk upon than railways, and we- may be approaching a time when they will be closed to pedestrians. Meanwhile the somnambulistic sort of pedestrian, writing to us, vigorously to protest against motorists as tho lords of the road, often asks: “Why cau.t they get out of the way..'

. This latest accident shows that they try, for one thing.

For. another, it shows that, in trying, they have to swerve; for a third that in swerving, they run into one another, and that thus one carelessly walking person (or oat) can be responsible for quite extensive smashes.