OFF THE ROADS
OLD CARS’ FATE LAW RECOMMENDED Legislation to remove “junk” cars from the roads and ensure the safety of all motor vehicles by periodic inspection was recommended by the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety at Washington (U.S.A.) last month. This followed the statement of a committee that defects in motor vehicles, due to improper maintenance by owners, or to old age, are the direct or contributing cause of 15 per cent, of traffic fatalities. The conference considered that periodic inspection of the mechanical fitness of motor vehicles was a necessity, and that a certificate of fitness should be a prerequisite to the issue of renewal licence plates for four-year-old and resold cars. It recommended that traffic authorities should be vested with the power to condemn and remove from the highways decrepit and “junk” vehicles that are unsafe and unfit mechanically.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 6
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144OFF THE ROADS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 6
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