Check On Speed
rv Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, October 20.
Gone are the days when Auckland motorists could spot a traffic patrol-car radar trap a mile away, carefully reduce speed to 30 m.p.h. until past the “danger spot.”—and then drive away at usual speed in excess of the limit.
The council’s Traffic Department is using microwave speed detectors in many ways, other than the “give-away” marked patrol cars.
Microwaves are being used in unmarked patrol
vehicles, in unmarked departmental vans, in unmarked small cars, and mounted on a tripod on the footpath.
Consideration is also being given to fitting the microwaves to motorcycles.
Unmarked patrol cars have been used since 1963. but vans and small cars have been used only for the last six months.
The traffic superintendent (Mr N. A. Lake), said today that unmarked cars caught a higher proportion of speeding drivers than marked cars.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31196, 21 October 1966, Page 3
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147Check On Speed Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31196, 21 October 1966, Page 3
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