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It's A Pity Warwickshire's Chief Con
stable, Mr. R. B. Matthews, writing in his monthly accident bulletin, states that recently there has been a distressing number of deaths resulting from accidents in which vehicles collided with the rear of stationary lorries. In all cases, he says, the accidents happened during darkness on unlit roads and, in half the cases, the rear lights of the vehicles were out of action because of failure in lighting systems.
"It is, perhaps, a pity that all commercial vehicle drivers do not flatly refuse to take on the road vehicles which they know to have defective lighting ", Mr. Matthews says. No one can, of course, disagree with these sentiments. But it is a pity, too, that those unfortunates who, in the dark, come across a blacked out vehicle are not travelling at speeds safely "within their headlights ".