Traffic board game

A board game apparatus of the type wherein each player moves a respective game piece along a playing surface, comprising:

• a plurality of playing pieces, each representing a vehicle to be controlled by a respective player;
• board means defining a playing surface substrate;
• a playing surface supported by the board means, said playing surface having differentiated markings thereon including,
• symbolic representations of the topography of a hypothetical community including a multiplicity of intersecting roadways,
• means for dividing each roadway into a multiplicity of distinct, serially connected road segment intervals along which the game pieces are to be moved,
• a first class of indicia associated with some of the road segment intervals, for defining a plurality of first traffic control parameters that influence the movement of the game pieces, each of the first parameters having a respective point value associated therewith, and
• a second class of indicia associated with some of the road segment intervals, for indicating the occurrence of unusual events when traversed by a game piece;
• chance means for specifying the number of road segment intervals that a player can move a game piece along a roadway during a given turn;
• a plurality of event cards, one of which must be taken by a player upon traversing a roadway interval having said second class of indicia associated therewith, some of the event cards describing a particular one of a respective plurality of possible traffic violations;
• a police report sheet containing,
• a list of all violations appearing on said event cards,
• a question corresponding to each violation on the list, each question pertaining to automotive safety or traffic laws,
• a correct answer to each of said questions, and
• a point value associated with each violation on the list.