PRESS STATEMENT 30 JUL
MECHANICAL INSPECTTION OF LONG-DISTANCE BUSES
( Statement by the Ministers)
Minimum safety inspection standards will be drawn up
for long-distance tourist buses operating throughout Australia.
This was decided today ( July 10) by Commonwealth and
State Transport Ministers meeting in Port Moresby as the
Australian Transport Advisory Council.
The Ministers have asked the Advisory Committee on
Vehicle Performance to prepare the standards together with a
time scale for their introduction.
They also asked the Standing Committee of Advisers to
closely examine the question of adequate enforcement of such a
standard by means of periodic and random inspections.
All Ministers agreed with the serious concern expressed
about the road-worthiness of tourist coaches in a paper presented
to the meeting by the N. S. W. Minister.
The item was raised following a number of serious
accidents involving long-distance buses in which a number of
people were killed and injured.
The matter of tourist vehicle road-worthiness was of
the utmost importance because large numbers of people were
exposed to risk in any accident involving a bus, and also because
the good safety record of the industry should be maintained in
the interest of tourism.
PORT MORESBY, T . P. N. G.
CANBERRA, A. C. T. 10 JULY 1970
Gorton, John
Period of Service: 10/01/1968 - 10/03/1971
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Release Date:
10/07/1969
Release Type:
Media Release
Transcript ID:
2082
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- Gorton, John Grey
PRESS STATEMENT: MECHANICAL INSPECTION OF LONG-DISTANCE BUSES
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