LARGE DECREASE IN DEATHS ON ROAD
Below Hundred For Week CAMPAIGN’S RESULTS IN GREAT BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 11. A further decrease in the number of persons killed in road accidents is recorded in the Ministry of Transport s statistics for the past week. They show that the number of persons killed in Great Britain during the week was 85 and the number injured 3185. In the corresponding week of last year the figures were 12(1 killed and 4035 injured. The number killed last week is the lowest recorded since weekly accident figures have been published in the past 56 weeks. Special interest attaches to the new figures in view of the special measures recently taken to secure greater safety on the roads. These measures include the introduction on March IS of a 30 miles per hour speed limit in built-up areas.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 7
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