THE RECKLESS DRIVER.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am glad. you have taken up a matter which in this county, with its •huge motor works, is an ever-increasing menace ; many of the roads here are little better than testing tracks. Accidents are recorded week by week in the local papers in increasing numbers. One great danger might certainly be removed by the reinforcement of the law obliging bicyclists to carry rear lights. I have driven cars since 1906, and know by long experience that when two cars, with powerful headlights, are approaching each other, a bicyclist is practically invisible to the overtaking car, and the driver can have little blame attached to him should an accident occur. Lately I have been watching the faces of the old and infirm pedestrians as they try to cross the streets in our county towns, and it is pathetic to see what misery is added to the lives of these people. Here a real speed limit might improve matters, for it is apparently hopeless to expect consideration from the majority of drivers, who seem to be unaware that pedestrians have any rights on the highway.
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