THREE PER DAY
ACCIDENTS IN AUCKLAND
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day.
The latest return of traffic accidents prepared discloses that 280 collisions between vehicles occurred in the . city and suburbs during the last quarter of 1926. Seventy-nine persons were injured, and there wore eleven deaths. An average of three accidents a day were reported, to the police, a This reveals a more serious position than earlier in the year.
The accident statistics compiled over six months from Ist March to 31st August showed an averages of fifteen accidents a week. There was a total of 403 collisous, or just over 200 a quarter, which compares unfavourably with the figures for the last quarter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1927, Page 8
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118THREE PER DAY Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1927, Page 8
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