Dangerous Roads
1O one will deny that the question of reducing the number of traffic accidents is a vital one, though I can’t help feeling that its vitality on the radio is being impaired by continyal plugging. The Question-Mark discussion of the topic was saved from dullness by an occasional freshness of observation and outlook in those taking part. Understanding of human nature was revedled by one participant’s comment that some drivers liked the" middle of the road because they felt equally removed from danger from the right or from the left. Another’s remark, "Vehicles don’t have accidents, people do," is as quotable, if less accurate, than the American reformer’s pronouncement that there are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents. The familiar canons of road safety were largely restricted to the chairman’s concluding remarks, heavily disguised as a summary of the discussion.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 11
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144Dangerous Roads New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 11
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