A British Judge on Motoring.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 8, 1 June 1907, Page 289

A British Judge on Motoring.

Mr. Justice Jelf spoke strongly on the subject of motor cars in addressing law students at Birmingham recently. He declared that for him the dangers of the streets had become so great, that the pleasure of walking or driving in I^ondon had been reduced almost to a minimum. There was scarcely a street where you did not find the atmosphere reeking with the smell of motor vehicles, or where you could drive without imminent

danger of being run into by something. The iudge entered into a disquisition on the principles governing the law of running down, but returned to the motor car to speculate as to whether something might not have been done if the people had taken the bull by the horns at the beginning and. said . " Tnis fellow is a public nuisance ; with his noise and his stink he is making life intolerable ; with the dust he is stirring up he is destroying the peace of everybody else." But it is too late now. Motor cars had come, and had come to stay, and those who drove them must have justice the same as everybody else. He had tried a great many cases in which motor cars had been concerned, and had found the motor driver quite as often in the right as the drivers of other vehicles. A skilful motor driver, with the power he has of stopping and turning, might go through life without an accident.