ROAD ACCIDENTS
Sir, —On June 9 your correspondent' “R.M.” appealed for punishments for carelessness in car-driving. Anything that will lessen the toll of death and crippling on the roads is well worth a trial. If I recollect rightly “R.M.” is wrong about liquor as a cause of accidents. Official figures given some time ago by the Transport Department gave intoxicants as the cause of nearly half of the motor accidents. That means only the obvious cases. There would sure to be many other cases, not so obvious, accidents in which enough drink had been taken to make the drivers more reckless, and thus impair their judgment Drinking and driving do not agree.— Yours, etc., TRUTH. June 12, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27065, 13 June 1953, Page 3
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