SCHOOLS FOR DRIVING OFFENDERS
PROPOSAL BY TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT (United Press’Association) WELLINGTON, April 23. The setting up of schools for violators of the traffic code is proposed in a report to be presented by the Transport Department to the Road Safety Council. Persons convicted of offences against the regulations would be required to attend a course of instruction, the nature and length of which would depend upon the type of offence. Lectures would be given on road accidents, their causes and results, on the obligations of road users, on traffic regulations and on safe driving practices. Use would be made of road safety films, and to illustrate reaction time and vision disabilities special apparatus would be utilized. ' This would be of value both for diagnosing defects and in educating drivers in the psychological factors involved in safe driving.
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Southland Times, Issue 24109, 24 April 1940, Page 4
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