ROAD ACCIDENTS
INCREASE IN BRITAIN “ALARMING FIGURES” (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 28. With the return of the basic petrol ration and thousands more cars on the roads, there has been a leap, in road accidents throughout Britain.', Every day there is an average of 16 people killed and 100 injured, while 20 children are killed every week. To combat those “alarming figures,” as they were called recently in the House of Commons, it is intended to reimpose - driving tests, which were abandoned during the war, and give new drivers provisional licences. One estimate is that the tests will result in about 1,000.000 drivers being banned from the roads, at least temporarily. Mr G. R. Strauss, parliamentary secretary to the Transport Ministry, said that when the police forces were built up again it was hoped that each force throughout the country would have a special traffic department. “No single action which can be taken to reduce accidents is more fruitful than that of the wide use of traffic patrols,” he said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26114, 29 March 1946, Page 5
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