LONDON’S TRAFFIC.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2474, 14 October 1922, Page 5

LONDON’S TRAFFIC.

15,553 ACCIDENTS IN THREE MONTHS. The alarming number of accidents in London every week is apt to make the average New Zealander abroad sometimes wonder when it is going to lie “his turn.” That was the impression formed by Mr A. E. Clausen, who returned from an extended tour on Thursday. As illustrating the extent of London’s traffic dangers, Mr Clausen gave the following official figures to a “Times” representative yesterday:—No fewer than 159 persons were killed in the area of the Metropolitan Police during April, May and June of this year. Seventy-seven deaths were caused by trade vans and lorries, 60 by mechanically propelled, 17 by the horse-drawn vehicles and 37 by private motor-cars. Motor omnibuses were responsible for 19 deaths, but tramway cars were involved in only two fatal accidents. There were 1 5,555 accidents of all descriptions to persons or property during the three months. “Knowledge of- those figures made me very chary about crossing the road,” said Mr Clausen, “so I used to manoeuvre to get in the centre of a small body of Londoners who desired (o cross the road- —yes. there is safety in numbers.”