The Dangers of Automobiles
Reckless, careless motoring in Boston, Massachusetts, where a three-day record shows two deaths and one injury from automobiles, has called forth this comment from the Springfield Republican: “The number of people killed in Boston of late by automobiles brings anew to the public mind a sense of the danger that is involved in the growing operation of these machines on the public highway. They are tremendously powerful, and the men who run them are in the way of losing all proper sense of the peril they create. It is no light matter to turn loose in the public streets something that resembles a railroad locomotive, and permit all kinds of folks, fit and unfit, to run these great machines. It is all that the most careful mature person can do these days to make his way across a busy city street. Constant effort should be made to hold those who operate automobiles to a strict accountability. Everything possible ought to be done to make them realize that they are morally and legally bound to watch out lest pedestrians be maimed or killed.”