The roads in the first years of the twentieth century were not constructed to accommodate the new motors, and thoroughfares were congested and dangerous.
That Irishman gave evidence at an inquest, ‘the real interest centering in the evidence given by Mr John O’Connor Power, a barrister, residing at Kingston Hill’. He argued that speed was a problem and the resources of the police badly deployed:
‘the concentration of the police force upon the trapping of motorists on open, unfrequented roads, while leaving utterly unregulated the traffic at spots where such neglect is likely to cause serious actual danger to the public.’
The Auto: the Motorist’s Pictorial Weekly, 1904