Road Manners

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 248, 10 January 1928, Page 6

Road Manners

Safety-First Ideas Some Reminders Paste these hints up in your garage, read them now and then, and tell your family and friends about them:— (1) Always drive as you would wish others to drive. (2) Drive carefully, considerately, and courteously. (3) It is DANGEROUS and DISCOURTEOUS:— (a) To take corners on the wrong side. (b) To cut in or cut things too fine. (c) To assume that the road is clear. (d) To overtake at corners, bends, cross-roads, road junctions, arched bridges or humps in the road, or ANYWHERE without certain knowledge of a clear road. (e) To turn into or out of a road except DEAD SLOW. (f) To drive so that you cannot pull up clear oi any possible danger. (g) To assume that your warning signal is heard, if no notice be taken of it. (h) To descend hills too fast. (i) To force your way through groups of persons boarding or alighting from tramcars. (j) To drive too close to, or too fast past, other road users. (k) To leave a vehicle on a bend, or anywhere where it may be an obstruction to other traffic. (l) To reverse unless you KNOW that all is clear. (4) It is COURTEOUS and CONSIDERATE:— fa) To keep well to the left. (b) To overtake only after making sure that the road is clear, and after giving warning. (c) To listen for warning signalfrom the rear, to signal on overtaking traffic, IF THE ROAD AHEAD IS CLEAR, and having done so, to let it get past. (d) To use your horn with discretion. (e) To exercise special care in passing all animals. (f) To draw up at the i± ar side ~f the road, WITH the flow of traffic, and not against it.