GREEN SIGNALS
UNSATISFACTORY COLOUR MAGISTRATE’S OPINION [Per Press Association. ] HAMILTON, April 17. That a green flag or light as a warning to motorists not to crjss a railway is unsatisfactory is the opinion expressed by Mr Wyvern Wi’son, S.M. to-day. : On a recent evening a woman driver, Grace Clark, seeing a green light at a |level crossing, thought the road clear, drove ahead and crashed into a train. I The -Magistrate remarked that green •is regarded as a safety colour. In any lease such signals are unsatisfactory as bnany people are colour blind. Electric {flicker signals are a better warning, j Defendant was flnod ten shillings.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 92, 18 April 1929, Page 7
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106GREEN SIGNALS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 92, 18 April 1929, Page 7
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