[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Carpenter's letter on the responsibility of motorists says what many of us think and too few of us feel urged to express. Your comment on the letter is provocative. In face of the tragedy of the roads—the indiscriminate deaths resulting from our present use of motor traffic—it surely is moral obliquity in us to be careless or self-indulgent about the observance of such rules as are devised to prevent these disasters, however trifling the observance or non-observance may seem at the moment. The Ciimmissioner of Police of the Metropolis in his report for 1936 states that nearly every offence against the Road Traffic Act is a potential source of accident.
To say in regard to a huge and tragically wasteful business " I hold shares in it of a negligible amount " is only playing at reality. Till we recognise this the tragedy will go on. Your note is not calculated to put an end to it.—Yours, Banjo! College, Oxford.
A. D. LINDSAY.
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