Saturday, March 26, 2011

March 26


This day in sketchtory, the UK introduced driving tests for the first time. Previously, all you had to do to be allowed to drive was to purchase a license, and thus, road fatalities were very high (almost 6,000 in 1934). The minister of transportation at the time, who introduced an actual set of driving rules a year earlier, instituted both driving tests and a national speed limit. There was an immediate impact and within a few years the number of deadly accidents was cut almost in half. This would have been cut even further if the test mandate had not been grandfathered in and those who had already purchased licenses were exempt from the test.

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