TOLL OF THE ROADS
In the first four months of the war 4130 persons have been killed on the roads of Great Britain, or many more than have died on active service in the Army, Navy, and Air Force during the same period, writes Mr T. C. Foley, secretary of the English Pedestrians' Association, in a recent article. The number of injured is not now published, but if the increase has been in the same proportion, more than 130,000 persons have been injured, of whom about 30,000 would be classified as seriously injured. An estimate based on payments by insurance companies indicates that at present road accidents are causing an economic loss to the community of about £1,000,000 a week.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 3
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