{"id":109570,"date":"2017-12-09T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:26","slug":"driving-tests-introduced-in-united-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/driving-tests-introduced-in-united-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving tests introduced in the United Kingdom, 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-67PEzMuBCw4\/TXueeFcc9QI\/AAAAAAAAB2c\/g2E_wEfKjOI\/s1600\/Licence%2B1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583230402750641410\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/licence2b1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109571\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 131px;\" \/><\/a>In  1930, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed a Road Traffic Act,  which removed all speed limits for road vehicles in spite of that year&#8217;s  record number of fatalities from traffic accidents. The continuing rise  in road fatalities prompted the newly appointed Conservative Minister  of Transport, Leslie Hore-Belisha,to introduce another Road Traffic Bill  in 1934, which parliament passed that same year. The act not only  reinstituted a speed limit of 30mph, but also made dangerous driving an  offence and introduced a driving test.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of  driving tests occurred on 13th March 1935, although the test was  initially voluntary in order to prevent a rush of candidates. Three days  later Mr R.E.L. Beene became the first person to pass the test, having  paid 7 shillings and sixpence. From 1st July that same year, the test  became compulsory for everyone who had started driving since the 1st  April.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1930, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed a Road Traffic Act, which removed all speed limits for road vehicles in spite of that year&#8217;s record number of fatalities from traffic accidents. The continuing rise in road fatalities prompted the newly appointed Conservative Minister of Transport, Leslie Hore-Belisha,to introduce another Road Traffic Bill in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}