Random stopping Mr Gair’s hope

Press, 13 November 1982, Page 25

Random stopping Mr Gair’s hope

Parliamentary reporter The Minister of Transport. Mr Gair. has reaffirmed his hope that random stopping will be introduced as an added deterrent to drinking and driving. He told an Automobile Association dinner in Wellington that a bipartisan Parliamentary select committee was putting together a package on road safety. He hoped to include a proposal on random stopping in the package. “Driving is a privilege, not an automatic right, and road

users have an obligation to their fellow citizens to maintain an acceptable standard of behaviour," Mr Gair said. “Excessive drinking and driving is simply not acceptable and I would hope that, as a community we are now mature enough to accept random stopping as a positive measure to help check this abuse." The proposal being considered would allow random stopping in an "open and well defined manner.” Traffic officers would have the discretion to allow those who had not been drinking to be waved on.