CARELESS MOTORISTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 May 1936, Page 8

CARELESS MOTORISTS

SENTENCED TO SCHOOL. Careless drivers in Honolulu are now being sentenced to school, with attendance compulsory and requirements for graduation rigid. Sponsored jointly by the police department and the city’s traffic safety commission, the school for traffic violators is being conducted on an experimental basis. Classes are offered every Friday at the central police station. Instructors have been recruited .from the police traffic division and from the University of Hawaii. Instruction includes the use of the city’s traffic code and the presentation of graphic films. The school has been designed primarily for students of three distinct types; the violator who cannot afford to pay a fine; the violator to whom the payment of a fine means nothing; the youthful violator to whom the loss of an evening from parties or play means much.

OKLAHOMA REWARDS CARE. More than 90,000 of Oklahoma’s motorists are driving cars that carry on their windshields the sticker that makes them partners to safe driving states the “Christian Science Monitor").

In co-operation with the National Safety Council’s five-year drive, 40 drivers during 40 days of secretly judged driving through Oklahoma City traffic were' awarded theater tickets for their consistent and considerate driving. Later, as a climax of this contest, the seven best drivers of the period were awarded 1936 license plates. Also in swing at Oklahoma City is the "Courteous Driver” contest. Each day the judges of the safety council select a driver who has shown unusual courtesy in heavy traffic for an award of merit.