Letters to The Times, February 9, 1936

In your issue of February 5, there is mention of an accident where an auto skidded 300 feet and killed the driver.

Some suggest stopping slow driving. My experience of more than thirty years driving, never having had an accident, convinces me that the speed maniacs on one side and the indifferent pedestrians cause most of the trouble. Just today, I saw some pedestrians cause most of the trouble. They were quite indifferent to the busy traffic.

Our speed laws are very liberal, and the slow drivers seldom hurt anyone. On the other hand, the indifferent, slow pedestrians cause trouble, congestion, and are mostly the ones to be injured and killed.

Anyone who cannot, or will not, step lively, has no business on city streets.

If more fast drivers and slow, indifferent pedestrians were arrested, it would soon do away with so many accidents on our city streets.

-J.H. McNEIL