LIGHTING REGULATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 180, 2 August 1938, Page 18

LIGHTING REGULATIONS.

ADVICE TO MOTOR DRIVERS.

Under the traffic regulations, 1936, it is not compulsory in every circumstance to dip lights when passing other vehicles, but dipping ie recommended ae a safety measure, say the traffic inspectors of ■ the Transport Department. When passing other vehicles, a driver may "extinguish the light from the offside head-lamp only, and use hie β-ide-iighte. Many drivers depart from this sometimes only one eide-liplit is working, and sometimes the headlight extinguished w not the off-eide one. Errors like these make the 'driver liable to prosecution.

Clause 10 of the. traffic' regulations says that where the light from some' artificial source other than the headlamp* is sufficient for the driver to see clearly «ny person or object 100 feet j away" the" driver shall use the lights froiii side-lamps, instead of headlamps, or shall dim or dip the lights from the headlamps. That is to say. drivers | should not have their lighte full on in | well-lighted streets.. Clause 6 of the reguletione says that the figures and letters on the rear registration plate "shall be c'early illuminated at «0 feet by a white lioht, the beams of which are not visible from the re» r. I Every trailer an well a« every motor vehicle is reonired to ha/ve e. tail-light Tjgible feet to th*- rear. I