MANY MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
COST 1 TO VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS. DRIVERS’ LACK OF CAPACITY. , UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—B Y ELECTRII TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATIONUNITED SERVICE.) LONDON, May 22. The Minister of Transport, Colonel W. W. Ashley, in reply to a question, said there was every evidence that a substantial proportion of motor fatalities and accidents was due* to drivers’ want of capacity, which would be disci os-ed in driving tests. Mr. W. Limn (Labour) pointed out that there were 100,000 motor accident cases last year, the treatment of which cost voluntary hospitals £500,000, while thousands of people for whom they were built could not be treated in those institutions. Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, said the matter would he considered when the commission on voluntary hospitals reported.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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