Checks prevented
Low cloud yesterday prevented the Ministry of Transport in Canterbury from testing its new aerial method of catching dangerous drivers, but it hopes to get up in the air today. Aerial speed checks can be taken by timing motorists as they pass between markers painted about 300 m apart on main highways. Traffic on State highway
1 south of Christchurch was reasonably busy yesterday because of the Ashburton races, said Senior Traffic Sergeant Jim McKee. The Ministry of Transport had no report of dangerous driving by racegoers. Six injury accidents and four Don-injury accidents occurred in Christchurch and surrounding rural districts yesterday. One driver
was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Mr McKee said that the Ministry urged drivers to take the utmost care. The Christmas period would be grim if there was not an improvement in the type of driving that had caused seven deaths on the roads already these holidays.
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