TESTING OF DRIVERS
ACCIDENT REPEATERS From discussions at the meeting' of the New Zealand Road Safely Council it was evident that the day of more careful and more scientific examination of applicants for drivers' licences is not far ahead. Practical steps have already been taken to follow up drivers involved in any series of personal injury accidents reported to the Transport Department, hut, said the Commissioner of Transport, Mr G. L. Laurenson. there were a number of dangerous drivers who had accidents in which no one was injured and therefore the Department had not so Pa,r been concerned with them*, unless their records were really bad —four or five accidents—when reports were received from the insurance companies concerned. He that reports should be made by the companies when two or three claims had been lodged. Mr J. H. Jerram, representing insurance interests, said that the coinpanics were very willing to cooperate .
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 155, 3 May 1940, Page 2
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151TESTING OF DRIVERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 155, 3 May 1940, Page 2
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