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dealing with the nuisance in London, and recommended the Council that
further communications be addressed to the Home Secretary and the
Commissioner of Police in support of the proposal that a regulation
should be made requiring motor vehicles to be fitted with a suitable
contrivance to prevent mud splashing.
The following Bye-laws made by the London County Council, are
now in operation:—
By-law as to Breakdown of Vehicles in Streets.
In any case where a vehicle breaks down and causes obstruction
to traffic in any street or public place and the breakdown of
such vehicle is due to its defective condition or to its being overloaded,
the owner of such vehicle or any other person who caused
or permitted it to be used and the driver thereof shall each be
guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a penaity not
exceeding 40s.
Provided that no person shall be convicted under this by-law
if he satisfies the Court that he had taken all reasonable means to
put and maintain the vehicle in proper condition or to prevent its
being overloaded, or, being the driver of the vehicle, that he was
unaware of its defective or overloaded condition.
By-law as to Slow-moving Traffic.
Every person driving or being in charge of any vehicle which
is moving at a slow pace in any street shall, as far as practicable,
keep the vehicle on the left or near side of the street and close to
the kerb of the footway, or, where tramway lines are laid upon
the left or near side of the street, as close to such lines as possible,
but so as not to obstruct any tramway carriage using such lines.
Every person who shall offend against this by-law shall be
liable for every such ofience to a penalty not excoeding forty
shillings.
Motor Traffic (Street Noises) Bill.
A Bill to amend the law in respect of Warning Instruments on
Motor Vehicles.
The object of this Bill is to give powers to make regulations
prohibiting the use in special areas or during specified hours of certain
warning instruments on motor vehicles. The regulations will be made
under section six of the Locomotives on Highways Act, 1890, under
which there is power to confine the application of any regulations to a
particular area.