SAFER ROADS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 May 1935, Page 7

SAFER ROADS.

NEW CODE AT HOME. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 24. In the House of Commons the new Highway Code, which in many respects modifies in the light of recent experience that of 1931, was approved. The Transport Minister (Mr L. HoieBelisha) said that a copy of the new code which lays down rules for conduct of all road users, including pedestrians, would be delivered free to every householder in the country. If the code was observed there would certainly be a reduction in road accidents. Measures already taken, said Mr Belisha, had together with the growing traffic consciousness of the community produced very good results. During the current year there had been a considerable reduction in load acciclents despite the phenomenal increase in the number of vehicles using the roads. In London the reduction m fatalities in the past nine weeks was no less‘than 30 per cent, and in injuries 15 per cent, while the inciease in the number of vehicles licensed was over 12 per cent. The code was, lie added, an effort to contribute to the public’ safety and ' embodied suggestions made from every quarter.