WOULD YOU STOP?

Taupo Times, Volume 19, Issue 98, 17 December 1970, Page 3

WOULD YOU STOP?

If you were the driver of this car and this was your vievv oi ihe intersection would you stop and give way to the approaching car? If you didn't then you would be guilty of violating the law and perhaps be responsible for an accjdent. The distance from your car to the intersection does not seem great — in fact it is just 48 feet. The approaching car seems a considerable distance away — it is, at 120 feet. But if your speed at the point where photograph was taken was greater than 12mph you probably would'nd be able to stop in time. The safe speed to approach an intersection depends primarily on the distance you ean see up the side roads. In the intersection shown. the visibility is insufficient for anv driver to approach

the intersection f'aster than 12mph. It is no defence to argue that you need not reduce speed because there is no approaching traffic in view. To the driver of the car. two yards further back or even a fraction ot a second previously the road to the right would have appeared completely ciear!

It must be kept in mind that at all intersections there is a critical mornenc when the decision must be made whether to go on over the intersection or to stop. The driver of this car is now at this critical point where he must make this decision, The right decision is to stop