BRITISH RAILWAYS.
FREQUENCY OF ACCIDENTS.
(Australian Press Association). LONDON, Oct. 28. Addresing a meeting of railwaymen at Norwich, Mr J. H. Thomas stated: “It is useless burking the fact that recent accidents have revealed that the human element sometimes fails. _ A temporary lapse by man is the direct cause of accidents. “There have been an unprecedented number of railway disasters. It is madness to disguise the seriousness of the position. There is a deal of public apprehension, yet statistics show that British railways are the freest from accidents in the world. Every week there are more killed _on the noads than the combined railway accidents‘for a whole year. Making all allowances for temporary lapses, don’t let us get into a panic and condemn railwaymen and managements wholesale. It appears that the railways have struck a bad patch.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1928, Page 7
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