Sir E. R. Henry, Chief Commissioner of Police, and Mr.
H. C. Monro, of the Local Government Board, did not agree to the proposal for the abolition of the speed-limit. On the whole, we regard the Report as reasonable and satisfactory. We attach great importance to the recommendations for special speed-limits in dangerous places. It is criminal to drive through a village or past cross-roads at a high rate of speed, and therefore villages and dangerous corners should certainly be proclaimed or put out of bounds for high speeds. It has always seemed to us that instead of setting traps, the police would have done well to watch dangerous places, and prosecute those reckless motorists—a minority, but still a considerable number—who dash round corners or past side- roads to the danger of the public. No penalties for such reckless driving can be too severe, and the Magistrates should find no difficulty in convicting, and also in obtaining the full support of public opinion in the motoring as well as in the non-motoring world. People are apt to forget that motorists, as the greatest users of roads, suffer in a quite special degree from recklessly driven cars.
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