Big Week-end Traffic Patrol Force
(New Zealand Press Association
WELLINGTON, June 4. The strongest patrol force ever put on the roads at holiday time had been ordered for the week-end, the chief traffic superintendent (Mr J. C. C. Edwards) said today. “But,” he said, “whether the roads are safe or tragic comes back to the behaviour of the individual driver. AU the patrols that can be mus-i tered can’t drive the cars of! all the people. “No excuses will be accepted . for behaviour which threatens danger to others on the road. Remember your manners.”
! Mr Edwards said he was iafraid of this week-end, and; jthe impatient driving which always marked brief holidays, i but that holiday roads could |be kept safer was proved by I the comparatively low acci- ! dent rate during the Christ-jmas-New Year period. ’ Two May injury victims ! died in hospital carrying the i months toll to 56. The toll | since January is 246.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30769, 5 June 1965, Page 24
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