DUE ANY TIME

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 10

DUE ANY TIME

DISASTER AT AVONDALE

There is no doubt as to what is due to happen on the main road through Avondale, the only doubt being as to the extent of the accident—meaning whether only one unfortunate pedestrian will lose his life, or whether there will be a bigger number to write down to the total of the victims of the motor.

For a mile or so on either side of Avondale, and through the actual township, there is a narrow concrete road, just sufficient for two vehicles to pass in comfort. Skirting this on either side is a grass forest, and hidden in this, somewhere, is a track for pedestrians—in many parts a muddy track.

The track does not appeal to pedestrians, and 95 per cent, of them use the concrete road—on which a speed of 30 miles an hour is not unreasonable for motor-cars. Not only do pedestrians use the concrete, but quite often they take entire possession of it. In the evening between lights, and especially on misty nights, the pedestrian is invisible at a few yards —though from the way some of them act they think they are as easily seen as a hay stack on a summer’s day.

Well, sooner or later it’s bound to come—and speeding on the part of the motorist won’t necessarily be the cause.