TWENTY KILLED
AUGUST ROAD ACCIDENTS P.A. WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. Twenty people were killed on New Zealand roads last month compared with 23 killed during August last year.' Announcing this to-night, the Commissioner ot Transport, Mr G. L. Laurenson, said (hat in six of the accidents the motor vehicle was out of control, suggesting speed too fast for the conditions and in six more clashes between vehicles Ihere was the suggestion that one of the drivers in each case failed to yield the right* of way. “If everyone would observe correct speed limits and the right-hand rule, ’ commented Mr Laurenson, “ the road accident rate would be cut aown by half."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26556, 3 September 1947, Page 4
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