“MOTORING FORMULA”

Shannon News, 4 December 1928, Page 1

“MOTORING FORMULA”

-A motor-cyclist who was sued at Edrnonton' ; (?o'uTity Court for knocking down a man told Judge Crawford (the “Manchester Guardian ”, states) that when the accident occurred he was going at only fiftcon miles an hour. Judge Crawford: Court motorists never do more than fifteen miles au hour. It has how become a formula. No motorist has ever bee% known to be travelling at more than fifteen miles an hourwhen anything happens. There was one occasion when two motor vehicles collided arid each driver’said .his vehicle was s statioriary at the time. I spent most of my time listening to such cases, and I cannot fail to notice that the uniform speed of motor-cars and motor-cycles is fifteen' miles an hour. It is a motoring formula that if anything happens you are only doing fifteen miles per hour.”