STREET ACCIDENTS
LONDON, July 29. Discussing the Home Office vote in the House of Commons, Commander 0. Locker-Lampson (Con.) pointed out that 7305 persons were killed and 178,000 others injured in street accidents in Britain last year. The Homo Secretary (Mr Clynes), replying, said he feared that, in view of the revolution of transport and increasing speed, increased accidents were inevitable. Though the police were becoming increasingly the guardians of the public in respect of road safety, the latter must increasingly depend upon individual carefulness
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 190, 13 August 1931, Page 7
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85STREET ACCIDENTS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 190, 13 August 1931, Page 7
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