More Cars—Less Killed

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18503, 15 September 1934, Page 9

More Cars—Less Killed

“JJP to mow we have almost had lo take it as a matter of course that fatal accidents increase in the ratio of the number of ears upon the road. lam glad to say that since our campaign started' in April the figures of fatal accidents have kept fairly level with the fatal accidents of last year, although there are sometiling like 100,000 more cars on Hie road,” said Air. Oliver Stanley, AT.I*., in the third reading debate in the British House of Commons on tlie new Transport Bill. ‘‘l am not prepared to lie driven into the position that fatal accidents depend on the number of cars on the road, and that for every so many increases in tiie number of motor ears there should be so many deaths, and that everything we do to encourage the manufacture .of motor cars means flint yon are doing something to encourage the- deaths of citizens. “Wo have got to keep in our minds this, that the terrible figures of road accidents are no less terrible because there may happen to be more ears on the roads. It does not matter to the relatives of the 7000 people whose, families have been turned into families of mourners that we might have expected that there might have been more.”