MOTORING ACCIDENTS.
Sir, —A few days ago you published an article in your motoring columns comparing the number of fatal accidents caused by motoi vehicles in New Zealand, Great. Britain and elsewhere. The writer made it appeal that motor drivers killed double or more persons per 1000 motor vehicles in the United Kingdom than in this country. Only recently a Home paper also compared the motor fatalities in Great Britain and in New Zealand, and the article said that if tho British motorist is careless, the New Zca land motorist must be absolutely reckless. The New Zealand driver has only a scanty population per 100 cars to run flown, while the motorist in the Mother Country has a much larger number per 100 cars to run into, and to make matters worse, much more crowded roads. The population of New Zealand has more miles of hard road per 1000 inhabitants than that of Great Britain. That means the oversea Briton has more room on his roads, and this should greatly reduce the number of accidents. Manurewa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20323, 2 August 1929, Page 16
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