HEADLIGHT USE
Commissioner Gives Advice (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. Too many drivers were not switching their headlights on early enough, the Commissioner of Transport (Mr R. J. Polaschek) said today. Only 63 per cent of vehicles checked in a nation-wide study by traffic officers in the holiday period had headlights on at dusk. Twenty-one per cent had parking lights on and 16 per cent had no lights at all. Headlights had to be used during the legal hours of darkness, Mr Polaschek said. Parking lights were not permitted under those circumstances because they did not illuminate the road and were not sufficiently conspicuous to warn other drivers, pedestrians or cyclists that a motor vehicle was approaching. Mr Polaschek advised drivers to put headlights on as soon as they thought that motor vehicles would be easier to see if the headlights were on.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31568, 4 January 1968, Page 8
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