Interim Report on Compulsory Insurance and Safety Responsibility Laws, 1930: Including Text of New Acts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0265052521 ISBN 13: 9780265052525

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Interim Report on Compulsory Insurance and Safety Responsibility Laws, 1930: Including Text of New Acts

Looking at the matter broadly, it is impossible not to be struck with the change in public sentiment as to the use r the highways due to the introduction of motor traffic. Under old conditions a very swift moving vehicle on a highway would have teen regarded as a danger, and its progress surrounded by whatever conditions were pos sible to safeguard those using the highway with equal right. One would have thought that the habit of caution, and the instinct of preservation, would have led public sentiment to regard the increase in the number, speed, and ease of management of motor cars, as creating a menace to public safety, and to insist upon adequate safe guards being secured; but there is no denying that the ownership of enormous numbers of motor cars, both on this continent and in Europe, has turned public sentiment completely around, and now speed and priority are claimed as of right for motors on highways. Cities have streets which are narrow and where motors are allowed to park on both sides, and where double lines of street cars run along the middle of the street. Safety islands are often regarded only as obstructions to the free circulation of traffic, regardless of the fact that pedestrians outnumber motorists by a very large majority.

Sentiment is, therefore, becoming perceptible that perhaps too much license has been given to motor cars; that they occupy too much space upon the highways, and so obstruct travel when parked and that their speed in a thickly populated area renders extremely skilful driving necessary if accidents are to be reduced to a minimum, and that those on foot should be protected in crossing streets and intersections. The overcrowding of front seats in motors is said to be a frequent cause of careless, or worse, driving. The greater mileage driven by the average motor owner to-day, and consequently the greater time spent at the wheel, accentuates these conditions. And having regard to the imperative need for reducing the enormous number of fatalities and injuries, I might almost borrow the words of a well known Canadian professor writing on another, and even larger, subject.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0265052521
• ISBN 13: 9780265052525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234