STILL NO SERIOUS ACCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 15

STILL NO SERIOUS ACCIDENTS

Road Safety Week In Wellington

With two days of Road Safety Week left, Wellington still has a record unspoilt by serious accidents, and the pennant flies at the top of the Town Hall mast still. Yesterday closed without the occurrence of anything like a substantial collision. The best the opposing forces could do was a mild affair in Lambton Quay last evening, when a car was driven too close to the tramline and had its front mudguard dented by a tram. ‘The remaining two days are regarded as the most* critical of the seven, but if the heavy weekend traffic is carried on with the same eare which has marked the last five days there is a good chance that Wellington will come, through the trial with a spotless record. FLOATS ARRIVE AT AUCKLAND Procession Through City By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 9. Bearing grim warnings of the perils of the road and making a strong appeal for the exercise of care by all road-users, the Transport Department’s six safety-week floats created widespread attention when they arrived at Auckland this afternoon after touring the southern districts of the North Island. The floats topk part in a procession through the city streets at one of the busiest times of the week, and their message was made clear to thousands of people, pedestrians as well as motorists. '