TESTS FOR DRINKING DRIVERS CONSIDERED

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30971, 29 January 1966, Page 16

TESTS FOR DRINKING DRIVERS CONSIDERED

(N.Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON, Jan. 28. Chemical tests for drinking drivers have been among the topics considered by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Road Safety this week. The committee today ended its three-day series of meetings. Further sittings of the committee are being scheduled for February. Submissions on the chemical tests have been made to the select committee by the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, the New Zealand Road Safety Council, and the police. Other organisations also have appeared before the committee with representations on a variety of subjects. The Minister of Transport (Mr McAlpine) said that the

response of such a very large number of organisations and the general public had been particularly pleasing.

The committee had received a great deal of material to examine and report on. Suggestions covered a wide range of topics, including increased safety at railway level crossings, compulsory eyesight testing for middle-aged drivers, and incentives for safe driving. “Traffic accidents form a serious world-wide problem for which there is no single cure, but I am sure that as a result of the select committee’s investigations practical proposals to improve the situation' will be placed before Parliament,” said Mr McAlpine.