SOME CARS SAFER
Reporter) WELLINGTON, Sept. 8. The Transport Department should advise motorists which were the safest cars to drive, Mr J. G. Edwards (Opp., Napier) advocated in Parliament today. Speaking on the Estimates for the department, Mr Edwards asked the Minister of Transport (Mr McAlpine) if some of the vote for road safety education could be used for this purpose. Some cars were more dangerous than others, said Mr Edwards. The best-selling cars in the United States were those
which put styling before safety, but a bill now before the Massachusetts legislature sought an increase in the safety factors in cars. A Texas school teacher had been awarded 230,000 dollars after an accident in an action against General Motors, partly as compensation for injury but partly as punitive damages against the company, said Mr Edwards. It had been established that it could cost 20 dollars to incorporate certain safety factors in a car when it was being built But it would cost 500 dollars to put these in afterwards.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30542, 10 September 1964, Page 11
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