TOLL OF THE MOTOR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 7

TOLL OF THE MOTOR

lIOI.IDAV ACCIDENTS WORST FOR SEVERAL YEARS. STATEMENT BY TRANSPORT MINISTER. •By Telegraph—Pre.-cs Associaimn. i CHRISTCHURCH. Januurx 11. Between December 23 and January 5. 17 persons were killed and many hundreds mjtiri.il in road accidents »md the Minister of Transp >rt Mi Semple today. This tragic waste of I’ft; nv;‘s the wors: ‘hat had occurred fc.>r several years and compared mosdeaths in the'- cH’-rre<pon‘/rr’ig peri«>c last year. !' had been confidently expeeted, c;’:;*m’inkon ui i be accompanied by reduction in the number of accidents but the lesscn-.'d risks resulting from set by ;iit evtden: increase in carelessn-:-** ;md in some cases by almost incomprehensible disregard for the elcmentarule.- of safety. "A particularly *;m Nature <-f the holiday toll wa< that 70 per cent of the person*' .-•Jlled were- passengers'' said Mr S -mjtle "Driver needs ;•• realise men v;vid|v that however prepared they may be to taken risks ‘hemse've> they' an awful responsibility if •hey needli-wly gamble with the lives of ether.-' I would like to express sympathy, with those who during the holiday season lost relatives in tralTic accidents, 1 hope that in the coming year all road-users will do their lies’ to eliminate tragedies.”