Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-08-02
BRIGHT LIGHTS.

The following from the Gate City
Guide of Rapid City is so applicable to
every community that we reprint and
heartily endorse the same
THE automobile driver who uses his
DINNERS when approaching another car
at night is now considered a sort of care
ful freak. Take the road from Rapid
City to Canyon Lake for instance. 1t is
none too wide in places Occasionally
there is ditch or bank along the way
which could easily cause serious wreck
TO an automobile, and perhans bring
death to the occupants of the car. Often
times the road is dusty and the passing
ears cause quite cloud along the way
| Have You ever driven along that road
IN the evening, either alone or with
your family and friends, aud felt the
| helplessness of your situation when you
we're faced by the binding glare of the
| headlight OF an automobile, driven by
some near-idiot who, if brains were a
preliminary requirement, could never
of wheel barrow? And yet the lives
of worth while people are daily and
nightly jeopardized by high powered
cars, sporting brilliant headlights often
driven by reckless drivers, and at a rate
of speed which is forbidden by the laws
| OF the land and by common decency, to
both of which such drive folks into
police court?
The law is clear enough and the rights
of law abiding people, whether riding or
walking, are equally clear. Why not
hale a few of these brilliantly lighted,
sixty mile an hour folks into police
court ?"
For the benefit of those who do not
know, We herewith print the law gov
erning this matter:
The legislature of this state, by House
Bill 2l6, amended Section 1868 of the
New Code relating TO Road Rules, the
use of DINNERS and the like. The law
now reads as follows;
The following rules shall be observed
| by every driver of motor vehicles upon
the streets, roads and highways of this
state
/. Every driver OF an electrically
| lighted motor vehicle shall equip such
vehicle with headlight lenses or such
mechanical device as will properly de.
| fleet or ditiuse the light so as not to per-
nit glare from such headlight to be
! thrown into the eyes ofpersons approach
ing such motor vehicle or being APP
preached by it. Spotights shall not be
used except when projecting their rays
directly upon the ground and at dis
tance not exceeding fifty feet in front Of
the vehicle.
| 2. Every driver of motor vehicle
approaching the intersection of a street
or highway shall grant the right of way
at such intersection to any vehicle ap-
preaching such intersection from his
right; provided, that whenever any traf-
ic officer is stationed at crossing or in
tersertion, he shall have full power to
regulate traffic.
3. Every driver of motor vehicle
| turning into another street or highway
to the right shall turn the corner as near
to the right hand boundary of the road
as possible.
| 4. Every driver of a motor vehicle
turning into another street or highway
to the left shall before turning, pass,
whenever possible, to the right and be-
yond the center of the intersection of
the two streets or highways.
| ApV paraOn ~ hn shall yinlata apy prn-
vision of this section shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punished.