AMBULANCE CALLS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 303, 20 November 1935, Page 14

AMBULANCE CALLS.

GRIM TRAIL ACROSS LONDON. Across the roar of London’s streets cuts the trill of a bell. Traffic is held up, heads turn in momentary curiosity, The white car with the Red Cross on it glides past and disappears. The busy stream of traffic presses on again. The incident has become a commonplace of the London scene. Just the ambulance called to another accident—somewhere or other. But where the ambulance has drawn up there is probably pain, perhaps the shadow of death. Nearly 20,000 times a year the white cars are called out to street accidents in London. Over 50 times every day the ambulance bell sounds its message. The hearers have grown callous or indifferent. The pedestrians, the drivers of cars, the people in the buses, hardly realise what lies behind that innocentsounding tinkle. Last year 7273 people were killed in roau accidents in Great Britain. The injured totalled 216,328. In a recent week 129 were killed, 4306 injured. London suffered 23 of these deaths aud 1141 of the injured.