“MASS MURDER”
ON THE ROADS (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent; LONDON, 13th August The scandal of what Mr HoreBelisha called “mass murder on the roads” is beginning to arouse some protest in influential quarters at long last. Whether even the most righteous indignation, however, will avail has to be tested. The Bishop, of Winchester calls for more humanity on the roads, and firmer action in the courts. School teachers point out the grim fact that one in every 11 of our children must expect to become a road victim during his or her school age. This year’s casualties to 25th July were 3,396 dead and 125,298 injured. In the Great War we had 812,317 killed and 1,849,494 wounded. During ten years on the roads our dead numbered 64,778, and we had 1,874,411 injured. As war is an intermittent- madness, and road casualties continuous, the comparison makes peace seem more deadly in the long run than war. In face of these facts, the indulgence shown to even serious offenders by the law, and the constant decontrolling of roads despite local protests, arc simply inexplicable.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 September 1936, Page 6
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