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Jack-knifing trials
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• The scope of the trials of ways to prevent jack-knifing by articulated vehicles is to be extended, writes our industrial correspondent.
Announcing this in the Upper House, Government spokesman Lord Hilton of Upton said none of the possible methods was yet fully proven. They needed to be tested more extensively under a wide range of operating conditions before their efficiency could be fully established.
Until the Government was satisfied that one or more methods were available which would effectively improve safety, there would be no legislation requiring specific devices to be fitted. This might not be the best answer, and legislation now might inhibit other alternatives.
Lord Wade, who had pressed for anti-jackknife legislation, asked if it was not true that there was a device now in operation which had proved successful in preventing these accidents. If there was to be legislation, he asked that the matter should be treated as one of urgency before further avoidable accidents occurred.
Lord Hilton pointed out that artics did not cause all the accidents in which they were involved. But until the right solution to the problem of jack-knifing had been found, he believed it would be wrong to introduce legislation.
Lord Pargiter noted that there was a large and increasing number of these vehicles on the roads, and asked whether legislation would be made retrospective—a point Lord Hilton promised to draw to the Transport Minister's attention.
• Mr. Richard Marsh hopes to introduce, in the next session, legislation for centralizing vehicle and driver licensing.—Commons answer.
• The Minister of Transport is hoping to announce a decision on the recommendations of the Lighting Working Party on headlamps "and other related matters" in a few weeks' time.—Parliamentary reply.