CHILDREN ON ROADS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 328, 8 January 1937, Page 6

CHILDREN ON ROADS.

Stricter Care In Holiday

Period.

“Motorists, and indeed, all road users, should be reminded that at this time of the year the school children of the Dominion have .been freed from the restraint and discipline of the schoolroom and the school playground, and are now at large on the highways of the Dominion,” says the latest safety message of the Automobile Association (Canterbury). “Though excellent work has been done by teachers and schoolboy patrols in the last year in teaching the children the principles of safe conduct on the roads, it is well known that the children, in the enjoyment of their holidays and the enthusiasm of their games, are apt to forget what they have been taught under the guidance of their teachers. Then again, they may be inclined to tr6at motor vehicles as a matter of course and take risks on the road. “The ‘School Slow’ sighs may lose their local significance for the time . being, but they should always be a reminder to the motorist and other road users that the children those

signs are erected to protect are at large in every city or town thoroughfare. There is need, therefore, for tihe strictest care by all road users, particularly near camping places, play areas, and beaches. Unwittingly, children will run out on to the roadway at any time and the serious duty devolves on the .motorist, and the cyclist, of safeguarding the children by anticipating their road-using eccentricities. “If every motorist applies this rule of care to all children as he would to his own the summer vacation will be as free as it should be of injury to the youngsters Who use the roads.”