OCR Text |
Show State Road commission, said that it is difficult for the commission to understand the reluctance of some motorists to have their cars inspected. '"It would naturally seem that men would be anxious to have their cars inspected for their own safety", said Mr. Hammond. "It is, after all, done for the protection protec-tion of all motorists, including the man who objects to the inspection. in-spection. If all automobile owners own-ers would keep their cars in first class condition at all times there would be no need of inspection", he continued. "The commission is determined that there will be no let-up on the matter of safe limj! as there are any traffic fatalities fa-talities on our highways." ROAD COMMISSION STUDIES PATROL REPORT The state Highway patrol is determined to stop traffic violations, viola-tions, and is making a vigorous drive against careless motorists, according to the six months report re-port of patrol activities submitted submit-ted to the State Road commission by R. W. Groo, superintendent. During the first six months of 1940 the Highway patrol made more arrests for traffic violations than for the entire year of 1939, with a total of G.054 arrests for the six month period as compar-I compar-I ed with 5,823 for the year 1939. In addition, 3,242 warning tickets were issued from January 1 to June 30. " In its drive to curb speeding, the Highway Patrol during the first six months of this year issued issu-ed 1,584 arrests for this traffic violation, as compared with 1,325 arrests for the same reason during dur-ing the year 1939. Running stop signs resulted in the arrest of 1,074 motorists from January 1 to June 30, a total of 240 arrests more than were made during 1939 for this cause. The report discloses that 452 arrests were made for lack of official inspection. In commenting comment-ing on this phase of the report, W. D. Hammond, chairman of the |