Growing Appreciation of the Need for Cycle Rear Lights.
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TN view of the probability that the question of 1. rear lights on cycles will be dealt with in forthcoming legislation, many representations have been received by the Ministry of Transport on the subject. With the recommendation of the 'Committee of Representatives of Police Forces and Road Users and a considerable body of unprejudiced public opinion in favour of rear lighting as a means of avoiding accidents to cyclists themselves, it is difficult to understand, in these days when public safety is demanding so much .serious attention, why the suggested precaution is so vigorously opposed. Whilst the Minister of Transport regards it as a matter of personal opinion whether in any particular case an accident to a cyclist might have been avoided by the provision of a rear light, he admits that there have certainly been cases among those inquired into by officers of his department where an accident would probably have been prevented had some such precaution been adopted. Official knowledge might surely extend to an appreciation of hairbreadth escapes and the anxiety imposed upon drivers of motor vehicles through neglect of an obvious precaution.