ROAD ACCIDENTS IN BRITAIN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 72, 7 March 1933, Page 10

ROAD ACCIDENTS IN BRITAIN

The Home Oftice has issued preliminary figures of road accidents during 1932 which were attributed to vehicles or horses, and resulted in death or perhaps injury. The total number of accidents in Great Britain was 181,268. of which (j. 173 resulted in the death of one or more persons. The corresponding ligures for 1931 were 181,077 and 6,199 respectively. The number of persons killed in 1932 was 6,651, and injured 206,110, against 6.691 and 202,119 respectively in 1931. Figures for the metropolitan police district show decreases in both the number of persons killed and injured. Among the cities and boroughs in England and Wales, Birmingham again had the highest total of killed or injured, namely, 6.050, an increase of approximately 360 over the previous year.

The Inn nin 2 out of a lamp bulb, particularly if it is new, may indicate something wrong with the electrical system. A faulty connection in Ihe battery circuit will cause bulbs to burn cut prematurely. Widening of streets is, in many eases, (he only praei.ralilc plan for relief m many of die built-up sections of the great cities, according to an American authority. The opening oi new arteries and elimination o| crossings by elevated or underground highways be believes, is a lower and ccsthei operation.

M.G.'S TWO MILES A MINUTE. Mr G. 1.. T. E.iston, driving Ins i 12 e.c. -M.G. ■ Magic" Midget at ths Montlhcry track near Paris on 13th December, 1932, achieved five new International (lass •'ll'' records, as follow: Flying kilometre 12V.56 rn.p.h.. Hying mile 120.56 m.p.h., five Kilometres 120.52 m.p.h.. live miles 116.71 m.p.h., teii kilometres 117.12 m.p.h. Mr lystolis ear was fitted with a specially streamlined body, including a | cockpit top. or conning tower. Further j records were made a lew days later, j with the result that the M.G. Midget i now holds every International Class i 11" record without exception.