ROAD SAFETY IN N.S.W.
“STOP-THE-STATE” PLAN ON THURSDAY
(N*Z Press Association -Copyright)
SYDNEY, March 26
The New South Wales Road Safety Council will launch its “Stop-the-State” campaign at 8 p.m. on Easter Thursday. It hopes to halt every vehicle in the State for three minutes to prevent Easter road deaths. It is estimated that 2.000.000 people will hear the “Stop-the-State” broadcasts. All police, ambulance and fire sirens and church bells will ring for 30sec to start the campaign. Theatres, cinemas, rrdio-cabs. and the Royal Faster Show will broadcast the programme.
Taxis, police vehicles, and thousands of private motorists will display “Stop-the-State’’ pennants and stickers. As a contribution to the road safety campaign, a Sydney oil company has given £5OOO for a road safety contest in .which entrants must list the road safety maxims in their order of importance.
In another move to cut down road deaths, the Transport Department will insist on medical certificates of fitness before it will renew commercial drivers’ licences from April 1. Since the start of this year nearly 150 people have been killed and 2 n oo injured on New South Wales roads.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27928, 27 March 1956, Page 16
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