TICKET FOR SPEEDING

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28629, 4 July 1958, Page 13

TICKET FOR SPEEDING

Member Of Road Safety Council (New Zealand Press Association) NELSON, July 3. A leading advocate of road safety measures in New Zealand yesterday received a ticket foi

speeding. . He was Mr T. R. McCleary, of Christchurch, president of the New Zealand Auto Cycle Union, and representative on the Read Safety Council. At a public meeting organised by the Nelson Road Safety Committee in the Stoke Memorial Hall last night, Mr McCleary related how he .had been caught by a traffic inspector, driving at 58 miles an hour on the highway from Blenheim to Nelson that day. Mr McCleary said he knew that he was being followed by a traffic officer when he was driving at 50 m.p.h. ‘‘Of course anyone that drove al more than 50 m.p.h. with a traffic officer on his tail would be silly. To my amazement I was stopped at Renwicktown by the officer, and he told me I had been doing 58 m.p.h., so he had to give me a ticket,” said Mr McCleary. It transpired, he told his audience, that his car speedometer was recording eight m.p.h. slower than the car’s actual speed. “I appreciated the fact that the inspector stopped me because a speed of 58 m.p.h. could have involved me in an accident,” said Mr McCleary.