GRIM RECORD.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 18 May 1929, Page 17

GRIM RECORD.

TOLL OP THE MOTOR--332 PEOPLE KILLBD IN N.S.W LAST YEAR. t«o* C« o** COKMBKUI9X;. r.. BYDNIT, May t. Last week, within the Sydney metropolitan area, two people were killM i* motor-car aecidenU. Ia ttt* previwu week the killed totaße4 in. Tk« number injured in the fortnight exceeded forty. Few weeks paw without the grim record of the motor botng added to in this way. The toll upon life and limb aatted by the motor-car in New South wale* ia revealed with startling direetawa by figures, supplied by the Polke Dopartment, which views with alarm tha In • creasing frequency of accident*. The figures showing the namber of parsons killed and injured eack year U Haw South Wales, when read in relation to those limited to the metropolitan ares for the first three months of the enrrtnt year, indicate that a deplorable reeord is developing. The figures do not | show the actual number of motor accidents, but it is certain that these tin » terrible frequency. In many aeeidents people suffer only minor Injuries, and of such accidents ni report is made. Here are the figures for three years:— Rilled. lajared--1926 .. 2SS 4*50 1927 .. £75? SMO 1928 .. 385 7124 Within the" titt area I*4 fwesl* were killed in 1926,161 in !»£?, «wl JM .in 1828. Figures showing the namber of filled and injure*) dating ttiefett three months of the protest y«ar available for the city only. They (Kt Killed. ' la^ared.. - Januarr .. 58 (10 1 February ~ 9 HI March ..14 ■ . *5» • Totals .. 51 Kit

During the last thres nntki tbar* bare bees, on tit* average, four iitttl and 124 people injured ew araak !• the metropolitan ares. Trtfli) Uftiri' ties believe that the primary aa—» «t the inereaatng numbar of aceiAatli ms First, the growing ntunbar at IHttg vehicles being; plaoad an tha tMi| second, the iaaraaaiiig wrtito; third, the deaire for apMd, aHM» «• aa exbttaratio» ar baecvaa af tha limauds of modern lif# aad bMfMßat and, fourth, tha congestion It tt* streets. Tha poliee lava 4Mai • warning to motoriata to tawart» 4lftft the pedestrian has aa atttah right %a fca abroad ad they ham SematJfiaf ftfM drastic appears to ba aaeaaaaty.