§ 130. Mr. Kimballasked the Minister of Transport what arrangements are being made this year for publicity about careful driving over the Christmas period.
§ Mr. Tom FraserMy new safety measures—the 70 m.p.h. overall limit experiment, and the 30 m.p.h. advisory emergency limit, with warning signals, on motorways—are being introduced before Christmas. They are being given publicity through Press, radio and television.
Publicity is also being undertaken on the theme of "Don't ask a Man to Drink and Drive". Four hundred thousand posters and 600,000 "stickers" are being distributed throughout the country; many are already on display. Television films on this theme are also being shown.
I have written to heads of industry, trade union leaders and others, asking them to bring to notice the necessity for care on the roads at Christmas; and a circular has gone out from my Department to local authorities seeking their co-operation with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
Over Christmas itself, my Department will be issuing warnings and advice to road-users.