CARE ON THE ROAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 8

CARE ON THE ROAD.

MINISTER’S APPEAL. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 21. “From the road safety point of view the record this Easter is much better than that of the previous Easter,” said the Minister of Transport (Hon. It. Semple), commenting to-day on the fact that there were five deaths between 5 p.m. last Thursday and noon Tuesday against 11 in the same period last Easter. On Easter Monday of last year six persons were killed, while on this Easter Monday there were none. Mr Semple said traffic accidents of all kinds were fewer this Easter, though there are 20,000 more vehicles registered than at this time last year. “The reports received indicate that, apart from that minority of really thoughtless and careless road-users, motor-drivers and motor-cyclists showed very much more consideration for one another. I regard this the work, of the traffic officers, and the efforts of many others assisting in the campaign for greater road safety as the three main reasons for the big improvement which has taken place. There is a tendency for road-users to relax vigilance when they think the peak period of traffic is over. The coming week-end, however, with Anzae Day on Monday, calls lor at least as much care and "courtesy as was displayed through Easter week,” concluded the Minister.