CARS IN RESTRICTED HEADLIGHT AREAS
SPEED LIMIT RECOMMENDED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 29. The effect of the lighting restriction* on road safety, and particularly the necessity for a compulsory reduction of speed in areas affected by the regulations restricting motoft vehicle lighting, occupied the Road Safety Council for the greater part of its meeting to-day. The principal decision was that at night in headlight restriction areas there should be £ speed limit of 30 miles an hour where hitherto there had been no limit (for instance on the Hutt road between Kaiwarra and Petone), and a speed limit of 25 mile* in hour where there had hitherto been i speed limit of 30 miles an hour (for instance in the city of Wellington). Fhis is to be a recommendation to tb# Covernment. Further regulation of pedestrians was not recommended, but ;he illumination of pedestrian crossing* is to bp consiriprpH
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23394, 30 July 1941, Page 6
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