Sm—May I have some of the valuable space in your columns to ask your readers if it is doing oneself justice to drive a car recklessly or under the influence of liquor?
On Thursday night, which you may recall as having been a wet and ticky night, while strolling with a friend along Route Pichon in the direction of Avenue Joffre, a large car, presumably a Packard came speeding along Route Pichon from Avenue Joffre until it was near Rue Lafayette. The driver of the car indicated with an illuminated arm that he wished to make a left-turn into Rue Lafayette. My friend and L who were on the left side of the road, had just stepped off the sidewalk when the car came into view. We, seeing that the car was about to turn towards us, stopped where we were near the pavement. What hai pened in the next few seconds shows that the driver should not have been behind the wheel that night or even never. The car came straight for us ar it passed, it grazed my trousers May I repeat that the road was wet and slippery, and say that the driver look a wide curve instead of a small one. The car, before coming out of the turn, almost ran into the pavement a few yards from us, and then, still driven crazily along, the car nearly crashed into a moving rickshaw. Fortunately the driver had sense enough to dodge it and then made à wide swerve to the right-side of the road. When he came back again to the left-side he put out his lights and drove, about thirty yards at a break-neck speed. The red illuminated arm was still lighted, and before the car disappeared from view, the rear lights came on again. This may have meant either that the driver was attempting to go by unnoticed, as far as his license plate was concerned, or that he was unfamiliar with the controls in not knowing which switch controlled the indicator arm. In either case it shows that the driver should not have been where he was—behind the wheel. Anyone familiar with the inter section of Rue Lafayette and Route Pichon can clearly see the folly of the driver, and a serious accident may have occurred. At this point it must be stressed that the driver was being unfair both to himself and to others, by driving in such an improper manner, and that it was not a joke, but an act which should be dealt with severely by the police.
Thanking you for your valuable space, many of your readers and I deem it best to
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