CRACKED SCREEN
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HAVING recently read the article "Pu: over — vehicles safety check" (CM, Jul 22), which I found very interesting, I would like to point out that Bill Brock made a mistake on page 42 regarding the windscreen.
The caption says "The screen is badl cracked in several places and could easi collapse in onto the driver." CM's picture shows a laminated windscreen. When one is cracked or chipped, it cannot collapse in onto the driver. The are sold by many windscreen companit on the basis that a driver can complete his journey in safety with a cracked windscreen. A toughened windscreen will shatter and usually collapse in.
I point this out as I am a windscreen fitter myself. This article is very misleading to the general public.
I do not know the legal position regarding windscreens; many drivers and police I have spoken to do not appear to know exactly what the ruling is when they are cracked.
R. MacKenzie North Walshan, Noriblk