TOLL OF THE ROAD
MEETING OF CRIPPLES REMARKABLE GATHERING LONDON, April 8. Four hundred limping, slow-moving men and women yesterday attended, at Croydon, one of the most remarkable meetings ever held. They comprised pedestrians injured i road accidents during the last 12 months. The Pedestrians’ Association organising the gathering searched the newspapers and traced 100 out of 1000 casualties.
Many as they entered the hall limed to the churchyard alongside where tombstones provided a grim reminder of victims who would never attend another meeting. Sir Alexander Buttcrworth, for 15 years chairman of the N.E. Railway ,and at present chairman of the City of London Hospital, who was in the chair, declared that the roads were becoming unfenced railways. “I admit that pedestrians sometimes are careless,” he said, “but it is terrible that a single act of careless- : ‘ss should bo punished with death.” The secretary recalled that a family living near busy cross roads in Norfolk had left their house because five persons injured in accident had been i Tried into their drawing-room to die.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18067, 19 April 1933, Page 7
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