SAVING PEDESTRIANS
LONDON CROSSINGS. CASUALTIES REDUCED. IMPRESSIVE FIGURES. t ßritish Official Wireless.] (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, May 29. Replying to a question in the House of Commons today/ the Minister of Transport, Mr L. Hore-Belisha, expressed the opinion that the new pedestrian crossings had contributed to the reduction in street accidents in Greater London. The number of pedestrians killed in March and April was 17.5 per cent, less than in the corresponding moxxth of 1934 before the crossings were established. Special observations at the crossings in the four main x ? oads out of London have disclosed a reduction in the number of pedestrians killed or injured of not less than 44 per cent.
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Northern Advocate, 31 May 1935, Page 7
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