Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1906 — About Drivers of Scary Horses. [ARTICLE]

About Drivers of Scary Horses.

Along with warning to automobile drivers to be more regardful of the rights and safety of other people, it will also be in order to remind drivers of horses which are still afraid of the autoes, that they are under certain obligations also, and that these obligations are imposed by the same law which restricts and governs the automobiles. Thus if the driver of a horse or team who is about to meet an automobile and has reason to fear that the horse or horses will be scared, it is the duty of the driver to hold up his hand, and the law then makes it the duty of the automobile driver to stop until the horses are past But unless the driver of the horses does make some such sign the automobile drivers are under no obligation to stop unless they see without such hand signal that the team is .frightened. In that case it is of course their duty to stop, anyhow. But it often happens that when a team and an auto are meeting no sign is made by the driver of the team and the auto comes right along and the team seems all right until just at the meeting point and then begins to plunge or dive into the ditch. In such a case as that the driver of the team, if he thought his horsts were afraid of autoes, ought to have made the signal for the auto to slow up. Of course there are autoes drivers who would pay no attention to such a sign, but they are but few in number and the law provides a punishment for them for such represhensible conduct and which should be enforced in every occasion.