USE YOUR HEADLIGHTS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30157, 14 June 1963, Page 9

USE YOUR HEADLIGHTS

AMERICAN safety experts blame 13 per cent, of highway deaths on drivers who use parking lights for driving in the early evening. A survey of New England highways showed that most drivers, who switch on their parking lights at dusk forget to switch on full beams as it gets darker, the American Legal Association says. In Wisconsin it is illegal to drive any vehicle at any

time of the day or night with only its parking lights on. Headlights must be used from one hour after sundown to one hour before sunrise and during other periods of limited visibility.

By statute, in Wisconsin, parking lights are now what they were originally intended to be —lights to be used only when the vehicle is not moving.

In New Zealand it is illegal

during the hours of darkness to drive solely with parking lights, but they can be used in conjunction with headlights when headlights are required. Lighting-up times in this country are half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise.

Headlights must also be used when there is not sufficient daylight to render a person or vehicle 150 ft away clearly visible.