TOLL OF THE ROAD
EXTRAORDINARY MEETING
INJURED PEDESTRIANS
LONDON, April 12. Four hundred limping, slow-moving men and women yesterday at Croydoa attended one of the most remarkable meetings ever held. They comprised pedestrians who had been injured in road accidents during the last twelva months. The Pedestrians' Association, in organising the gathering, searched the newspapers and traced 400 out of 1000 casualties. Many of the people as they entered the hall pointed to the churchyard alongside, where tombstones provided a grim reminder of victims who would never attend another meeting. Sir Alexander Butterworth, who for fifteen years was chairman of the North! Eastern Bailway and at present is chairman of the City of London Hos* pital, presided. He declared that thß roads were .becoming unfenced rail* ways. ' "I admit that pedestrians sometimes are careless," said Sir Alexander, "but it is terrible that a single act of carelessness should be punished with! death." The secretary recalled that the members of a family living near busy cross' roads in Norfolk had > left their hous« because fire persons injured in. aeet" dents had been carried inta-thei*.-*^** ing-room to die,
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 93, 21 April 1933, Page 7
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186TOLL OF THE ROAD Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 93, 21 April 1933, Page 7
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