ROAD ACCIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 17

ROAD ACCIDENTS

INCREASE IN BRITAIN

(From "The Post's" Representative.) v . "... LONDON, January 19. According to Home Office "figures issued yesterday, in tho'wjholc of Great Britain tho total hum&er of road accidents, resulting in death or personal injury was 191,829, of winch 6924.were fatal accidents. ' Tho corresponding, figures for 1932 were 154.006 and 6457 respectively. There was 'thus an increase of 7823 or 4.3 percent, in the total number of accidents Qiis compared with an increase of 2,929 or 1.6 per cent, in 1932), and an increta-se of 437 or 6.7 per cent, in the.number of. fatal accidents (as compared vyiih a small decrease in 1932). The number of persons killed in 1933 was 7125 and of persons injured 216,401 against 6667 and 206,450 respectively in 1932.: : The figures for England and Wales show rather larger increases, there being, a decrease in the number of % recorded accidents and in the ('number of fatal accidents in... Scotland. ■ The total number of accidents resulting in death or personal injury in England and Wales was 175,785 (an increase of 8033); of theso tho fatal accidents numbered 6248 (an increase of 448). The total number ot persons killed or j injured in England and Wales in 1933 Tras 205,035 (an increase of C 10,393);. of these the number killed was 6425 (an increase of Tho figures for tho"'Londion Metropolitan Police district show an increase

in both the numbers of persons killed and those- injuied, the toals for 10Q3 being 1,400 killed and 56,967 iuiurod compaied with 1266 killed' ana 52,447* injured in 1932 (increases of 11.3 percent, and 5.6 per cent, respectively)., Tho London City Police district, on tho other hand, shows a small decrease from, 17 to 16 persons killed and from 739 to\ 7ZI persons injured.