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Automobile Inspection
Prevents Accidents
“Retain the '-present motor vehicle inspection program and strengthen the Division of Motor Vehicle’s procedure for hearing's directed towards the revocation or suspension of the licenses of accident-prone, consistently illegal, or otherwise unsafe drivers’, were the two main recommendations brought forward at a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Governor’s Highway Safety Committee, according to information received from Col. C. W. Woodson, Jr., Superintendent - of State Police and Committee Chairman.
The Executive Committee,-composed of Col. Woodson, Gen. James A. Anderson, State Highway Commissioner, and C. F. Joyner, Jr., Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, pointed out that even with a program of inspection rated equal to any in the nation, seven percent of the vehicles involved in accidents are mechanically unsafe, hut that this rate is well below the national average. In addition, the Committee felt that many drivers who stay without the bounds of mandatory revocation or suspension as defined by the Motor Vehicle Code show long records of accidents and arrests or any physically incapable of proper driving and therefore present hazards which should be eliminated or corrected-.
Other recommendations • were the distribution of short safety films suitable for theatres, an increase in the use of billboards for safety publicity and the preparation of a suitable safety emblem for use on the automobiles of local safety council members throughout Virginia.
Captain W. L. Groth, State Police Safety Engineer, is in charge of the administration of the Committee’s action program.
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