BiS - Wednesday, August 8, 1984 - North Shore News

THE PACIFIC National Exhibition is gearing up
once more for the ‘‘World’s Largest Demolition

Derby’”’

It starts Saturday, Aug. 18,
and goes for 17 days straight
with a total of 38 shows and
over 100 events. Capacity
crowds in the stands for the
past 12 years has meant an
average of a quarter million
people. —

The show is organized by
Vancouver’s Satellites
Motorsport Club who will
register 150 drivers to take
part in the various events.
They will go through about
400 cars on their way to a
whole lot of fun and perhaps
the prized championship.

Trucking
highway

THERE HAS been an
estimated 17 per cent
reduction in preventable
accidents on_ selected
highway routes in B.C.
which were the focus of
a year-long trucking in-
dustry safety campaign.

The Northwest Alliance of
Fleet Supervisors also
reported that the Commercial
Accident Prevention
P:rogram (CAPP) also con-
tributed to a 29.4 per cent
overall decrease in preven-
table accidents in the three
jurisdictions which par-
ticipated in the campaign -
Washington, Oregon and
British Columbia.

The program was launched
to educate and assist trucking
companies and the motoring
public with the reduced risks
associated with the five
leading causes of preventable

All the regular proven
Demolition Derby events will
be on the schedule as well as
some new novel ideas. A
truck championship event
will be held for the first time
on Sunday, Aug. 19, at 2
p-m. A dozen people have
already been confirmed as
drivers.

The ladies Powder Puff
events this year include an
‘‘open competition’’ and has
over $1,000 set aside as prize
money.

There is the ‘‘Best appear-
ing Contests’? where the

tor mayhem.

crowd picks out the nicest
cars. Most have been in
custom car shows and shopp-
ing centre displays. On Fri-
day night, Aug. 24, at 8:30
p.m. there is a new contest.
Each car will have three
painters and fifteen minutes
to decorate their cars. The
crowd again will pick the
winner.

The small imports and
domestic cars that are so
popular now on the street are
part of the Pacific National
Exhibition action centre as
well. Oval track racing,
figure-8 racing and the grand
finale demolition derbies will
please the crowd. Women
race bumper to bumper and

industry claims
safety works

accidents - driving without
due care, failing to yield right
of way, unsafe speed, follow-
ing too closely and improper
passing or lane changes.

The campaign was spon-
sored by the Northwest
Alliance of Fleet Supervisors
(NWAFS), a safety organiza-
tion which represents approx-
imately 300 trucking com-
panies belonging to trucking
and7or Fleet Supervisor
Associations~in Washington,
Oregon ands Britis
Columbia. ote

The program is also sup-
ported by a varietyof
federal/provincial/state and
local safety enforcement
agencies including the
RCMP, Ministry of
Transportation and
Highways, ICBC, B.C. Safe-
ty Council, the Canadian
Association of Fleet Super-
visors and the B.C. Motor
Transport Association.

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‘‘This program showed
that when government and
industry worked together to
improve highway safety it is
possible to achieve a real im-
pact on the number of ac-
cidents and the winner is the

‘motoring public,’’ said
Fergus Savage, NWAFS
President.

During the CAPP cam-
paign approximately 300,000
handouts were distributed to
northwest carriers high-
lighting the causes of
p;reventable accidents. Also,
industry mailouts, accident
risk maps, litter bags with
safety messages and tips to
passenger and commercial
drivers were issued.

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with the guys in these races
and often come out winners!

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popular show at the P.N.E.

fair.

““Go for the fun of it’’ is
the 1984 theme and the
drivers will guarantee that
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Shows are at 2 p.m. and
8:30 p.m. weekdays and Sun-
days, 2, 7:30 and 9 on
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