SAFETY ON ROADS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 22, 5 November 1938, Page 6

SAFETY ON ROADS

SPEED AT INTERSECTIONS. HIGHWAYS AND SUBSIDIARY. TEN MILES AN HOUR PROPOSED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Draft regulations are being submitted to the local authorities by the Transport Department, with a -view to eliminating the possibility of traffic accidents at. the intersection of main highways and comparatively unimportant blind roads.

The Minister of Transport (the Hon. R. Semple), in an interview, said it was proposed that users of subsidiary roads should be required to reduce speed to 10 miles an hour. The Minister added that surveys had been made by the Transport Department of a number of blind intersections where roads of minor importance junctioned with busy main highways. Every endeavour had been made through local authorities to improve the visibility at such intersections, but in a number of eases it had been found impracticable to give adequate visibility, and it was suggested that a compulsory stop sign should be erected on subsidiary roads. However, as a result of observations, it was found that in most cases an absolute stop would he unnecessary, and if the speed of vehicles emerging from side roads were reduced to 10 miles an hour the danger of accidents would bo almost, eliminated.