ACCIDENTS IN AUSTRALIA
2200 Killed On Roads
(N.Z. Press: Association—Copyright i (Rec. 9 p m.) . MELBOURNE. January I Road deaths throughout Australia during . the ChrJstmas-NeW Year holiday , totalled, 80 and about 2500 people were injured. The annual total for IMS Was 2200 deaths and 55.000 injured. Announcing these figures last night the secretary of the Nau ional Safety Council iMr T. G. Paterson) said Australia would continue to pay a frightening price until there was'» forthright attack on the arch-enemies of road safety. i . These were speed and its “sinister accompanist”—intoxication, he said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28784, 3 January 1959, Page 15
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