New Britain herald., 1927-10-29
.l5,0OO AU7O|STS
 VIOLATED RULES
This Number Failed to Note
 Address Changes

Approximately 15.o0o automobile owners and operators violated a Connecticut law during the past year Ly failing To notify the State Motor NrhlcIe Department Of changes Of address. 8.cause of this neglect -acI of tu-ea persons became liable to arrest and d find of $l0 The law requires that notice Of inc change be filed within 4S hours. the information to include both the old and the new addresses.
 Confusion .@ often caused at the time new registration blanks are mailed to Car owners Many regis trants have complained because they tailed to receive blanks. while in .rstisation showed, usually that they were among the number who failed to send notice of change Of address. IL is particularly i'm portanr that correct addresses be filed with the department this year as old blanks will not he accepted for registration applications this year because of q change in the form, effective on all 1928 appuca- tions
 Records of the dep rtment show that about 45,000 car owners or operators change their addresses at least once year. The neglect to supply notice of the change by one third Of this number has caused con- siderable inconvenience and trouble for the department, the police and the owners and operators them selves
 IL has been necessary 10 refer many cases to the state police for investigation, when the motor ve- ticlc department might have taken care of the cases if correct addresses lad bcon known, The department Las also found it necessary, when correct addresses are not available, to send the name Of the person 10 the suspension section for listing for the purpose of locating them.
 Another source of inconvenience" is the lack of specific information in reports of motor vehicle accidents, particularly as 10 the places where accidents occur, Frequently, the re- town. and it Is impossible to ascer- tain whether the accident occurred at an intersection. curve or on q bill, or anything else about condi- tions surrounding the incident.
 An example of incomplete infor- nation is d recent report which gives the location Of an accident as the Danbury Bridgeport road in Bethel. There is no other informa- ton and the department is left to determine where on the Danbury- Bridgeport road, which runs for several miles through Bethel. the accident occurred Reports of this kind cause inconvenience to the operator and to the department as the operator must be requested 10 supply additional information. Un- less such information is specific in- correct accident records for a par
 
 still another source of confusion is the frequency with which persons give the wrong engine number when making application for motor ve- Iicle registrations. If q wrong num- Der is given and the car is stolen later, the engine number on file is useless as an aid 10 the police in To- eating the vehicle. The transposing Of the digits making up the engin" is a common occurrence be cause of attempts to memorize the before filling out the ap- pilcatlon. Numbers on castings and other Identification figures are often confused with the engine num- ber Many persons avoid this mis- take by consulting their dealer or repairman.