M.O.T. BLITZ ON NOISE

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33777, 25 February 1975, Page 16

M.O.T. BLITZ ON NOISE

The Ministry of Trans-: port yesterday began a nine-week campaign to < try and deal with excessively noisy vehicles. In Christchurch Mr A.! Goldsmith. traffic superintendent. said all officers m •he area would be involved; in the campaign, which was nationwide. Snecial watch would he ke->t on on'linE noisily awav f’T>m traffic lights. excess. r"wipß and the careless use. of motor vehicles which C.f'e tvres to squeal. Offence notices would he issued to all whose vehicles

’were considered to be un-n I necessarily noisy. “We are concerned about : [excessive noise created by] vehicles owing to mechanical j, defect or through modifies-i! tion to the exhaust system,”: | he said. Mr Goldsmith said that] where vehicles are found to i be excessively noisy, traffic] officers had been instructed! to order them off the road.] “■rhe vehicles will not he; .allowed on the road aeaini [Until they hare been shown; to hove been fixed.” Offenders will not be I directed to anv snerific aar-i aee to pet their vehicles re. n ai r ed. hut within a certain Period thev will have to show! that the repair to eliminate 1

noise has been carried out, iMr Goldsmith said, SEAT BELTS i In the two weeks which I ended on February 16, the [Transport Department in [Christchurch carried out a ■check on the wearing of seat i belts and 99 offence notices were issued. I Eighty-six drivers and six jnassengers were not using ! their safetv belts, and seven ica r s d>d nof have be ,te fitted. Some drivers felt the necessitv to wear their belts joniy whan rhev were out in •he country, where sneeds "•ere h'oher. “I would remind them that it is iust as imnortanf to wear them inside the 3fi m.n.h ’one as outside •of it,” he said.