Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1911 — All Travelers Should Know Rules for Passing on Highways. [ARTICLE]

All Travelers Should Know Rules for Passing on Highways.

There would no doubt be fewer automobile accidents to record if <ll those who use the public highways, in various types of vehicles, would acquaint themselves with, and habitually observe, the legally established rules of the road. The law requiring persons meeting on the public road to keep to the right, we believe, is almost universally observed, but there are those who seem indifferent to the equally important rule of passing to the left from the rear. For instance, when one driving a road wagon or other slow vehicle observes a buggy or light vehicle in his rear, the law requires him to give half the roadway .by pulling to the right and allowing the traveler to pass to this left. This same law must be observed in regard to the automobile. Unless a traveler on the public highway is able and willing to keep the road clear behind him for the reasonable speed of some other traveler, he must give half the road to his left for the safe passage of those who are prepared to travel faster than himself. Should he refuse to do this, and an accident should result, he is responsible and liable for damages. The law intends that the public highways shall not be obstructed, and it would be well for those who use the public roads to thoroughly acquaint themselves with the law and observe Its provisions. If automobiles, and those who use slower vehicles as well, would not only observe the law themselves, but enforce it on others, thre would be fewer terrible accidents to record.