Road-e-o for Teenagers

Forty teen-age drivers, including nine girls, competed in the Nelson Jaycee's first teenage safe driving Road-eo at Nelson airport. The contestants had to negotiate a course simulating conditions that would apply on the roads. It was quite an exhaustive test of their skill and points were deducted wherever a contestant failed to comply with the rules of the road or was faulted in the tests. The contest was won by Bruce Cooke with 510 marks out of 570 and he represented Nelson at the national final.

Bruce and his award

Val Lewis, closely watched by Neil Macfarlane, attempts to back her car without touching the white cones with her wheels.

Award winners were Margaret Kidson (3rd girls), William Arnold (3rd boys), Denise Kerr (2nd girls), Cedric Haycock (2nd boys), Sandra Inwood (1st girls) and Bruce Cooke (first boys and overall winner).

Les Stollery and Mark Richards check braking distance of Robert Strickland.

Peter Murray (project convener) and Geoff Powell, add up the final scores.

John Mayson, David Teague, Jack Auton, Lin Gamble, Tom Chivers and Ian Penrose find some amusement in the efforts of Ron Chisholm (below) to back his truck his way through the obstacles.

Jack Nicholas checks Ian Jackson through a parking bay.

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The Nelson Photo News

No 38 : December 7, 1963

Road-e-o for Teenagers