TOLL OF THE MOTOR
IN CITY OF LONDON. A HUGE LIST. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, October 18. Despite Lord Trenchard’s warning last July motor cars killed 270 and injured 15,538 in London during the three months ending 30th September, of which private cars were responsible for one-third.
Private cars are being driven less carefully and skilfully, said Lord Trenchard, Metropolitan Police Commissioner last July, who describes as terrible the toll of casualties. A return of London’s street deaths discloses that for the first six months of 1933 those killed numbered 338, and those injured 15,676, increases of 73 and 1877 respectively compared with last year. The report adds that pedestrians must recognise that the roads require the same care in crossing as a railway line. It cannot be necessary for three or four people to be killed daily.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 5
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