Lives are in your hand. Road Safety Poster circa 1939 - 1959 Driving Signals Useless The sooner the old system of hand signalling by motor drivers is restored the better it will be for road safety, writes our Brisbane representative. The new signals have been in operation for about a year or more, and they have been a disastrous failure. Accidents are happening in Brisbane every day, probably every hour, because of faulty signalling. Before the new system operated, nobody worried about giving a signal to make a left-hand turn, unless it might be a stopping sign. The turn right was an arm hel
Lives are in your hand. Road Safety Poster circa 1939 - 1959 Driving Signals Useless The sooner the old system of hand signalling by motor drivers is restored the better it will be for road safety, writes our Brisbane representative. The new signals have been in operation for about a year or more, and they have been a disastrous failure. Accidents are happening in Brisbane every day, probably every hour, because of faulty signalling. Before the new system operated, nobody worried about giving a signal to make a left-hand turn, unless it might be a stopping sign. The turn right was an arm held straight out, and the come on sign was an obvious wave of the hand. Then last year a left-turn signal was introduced consisting of a kind of pat the dog action. Now that is just about all that is left of our once effective and easily understood form of signalling. In Brisbane now a correct signal is becoming rare. A driver meaning to turn right starts waving his hand up and down - which is actually the turn-left sign - then at the last moment extends his arm and turns. Those behind are left to guess what he is going to do. With thousands of drivers the up and down meaningless wave does for everything. To continue reading visit: Maryborough Chronicle, 4 April 1952 ( )
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