“Watch Your Step’
.View Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON. June 8. A “watch your step'* campaign, aimed at improving pedestrian safety, will be held from June 13 to 18. "Motorists are frequently blamed for inattention, excessive speed and other dangerous driving practices that result in pedestrian accidents, but it is a fact that pedestrians themselves are more often to blame than the motorist,” said the Minister of Transport (Mr McAlpine).
Road safety was a team effort and during the campaign be hoped that all pedestrians and drivers would avoid accidents by exercising the principles of intelligent anticipation, Mr McAlpine said.
Last year was the worst on record for traffic deaths.
“The winter months of June and July claimed 98 lives in the grim total of 559 for the year,” Mr McAlpine said. It was for this reason that the campaign was being held.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 3
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