Crime On The Roads
Sir, —In the same issue of the Manchester “Guardian” from w’hich your print John O’Callaghan’s motoring article, this correspondent reports alcohol as a factor in 44 per cent of the 1964 Christmas road fatalities. The 1963 figure was 48 per cent. The Road Research Laboratory commented that casualties were up to 15 per cent less than might have been expected if the Minister of Transport had not gone ahead with a £500,000 “Drink and Driving” campaign. Does that give our Government an incentive to positive action? Is there a clue here for our country’s safetv campaigners? Alcohol was a factor in 60 per cent of the Saturday road deaths, the laboratory reports. Our Transport Department statistics show Saturday from 6 to 7 p.m. as the most dangerous hour of the week, though traffic volume is relatively light. We have the means for saving life. We await the application of civic courage.—Yours, etc., PHILLIP RAMSAY.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30823, 7 August 1965, Page 14
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