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Silent Control Must Go!

11th December 1936
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MAGISTRATES are not, as a rule, particularly partial to road operators, but even they have been shocked by the silent-control method of trapping drivers who, it is believed, are exceeding the speed limit, and in a number of cases where this method has been adopted the alleged offenders have been discharged.

The system is still, however, being carried on in some parts of the country, and as a summons for an alleged offence is receiveil often many weeks after the event, the matter of defence becomes an absurdity, for what driver can say what he was doing at a certain time of day at a certain place weeks before?

Another iniquitous trapping method is that performed by a single officer whose word is backed only by the so-called " evidence " of a speedometer. Even police officers have been known to misrepresent the facts of a case and, in our view, any official who does this would be just as likely to be in error over a speedometer reading. It is merely a question of one man's word against that of another, and, again, the driver has no opportunity of putting up a proper defence.

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