Greater Safety for All Road Users.,
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Our Offer of £250 for Suggestions.
WE ARE continuing to receive suggestions in large numbers from readers who appreciate the need for effecting such reforms upon the highways as shall lead to a diminution of the risks and to an all-round improvement in traffic conditions. Most of the•dangers that are to be met with to-day can be eliminated by alterations in method in one direction or another. The human element is weak and often careless and there must, naturally, be dozens of ideas for meeting this weakness and carelessness. The cross-road and the road junction constitute the scenes of a large proportion of road accidents, and the question is: What are the best methods of reducing or even entirely eliminating the dangers of these spots? The question also arises as to whether the better schooling of the newcomer in road manners, habits and customs should not be enforced. This wile:Ming could be imparted (it has been suggested in The Motor) by means of a booklet giving essential advice in the tersest possible manner, and an applicant for a motor-driving licence should be called upon to declare that he has read such a booklet. It might
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be proved, in the course of time, that this requirement did not go far enough. In that case it would have to be considered whether compulsory driving examinations were necessary. We particularly invite drivers of commercial goods and passenger vehicles to send their contributions to this request of ours. Their driving experience is exceptional, and they can regard the problem from the point of view of the constantly overtaken, their average speed being about 10 miles per hour less than that of the private vehicle. The proprietors of The Commercial Motor and its associated journals offer the sum of 2250 to be allocated as awards to those whose submitted ideas, aiming at the lessening of traffic risks and the reduction of the number of road accidents, shall be considered by the editors of those journals to be most suitable for such recognition. The sues stated will be divided into 10 awards of 210 each, 15 awards of 25 each, 25 awards of 21 each and 100 awards of 10s. each_ Letters should he marked "Highways Safety," and be addressed to the Editor, The Commercial Motor, 7-15, Rosebery Avenue, London, E.C.1.