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DEATHS ON ROADS DECREASE IN BRITAIN. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, Thursday. A further decrease in the number of persons killed in road accidents is recorded in the Ministry of Transport’s statistics for the past week. They show that the number of persons killed in Great Britain during the week was 85, and the number injured 3185. In the corresponding week of last year the figures were 126 killed and 4035 injured. The number killed last week is the lowest recorded since weekly accident figures have been published in the past 56 weeks.
Special interest attaches to the new figures in view of tho special measures recently taken to secure greater safety on the roads. These measures include tho introduction on 18th March of a 30 miles per hour speed limit in built-up areas. —British Wireless.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 April 1935, Page 5
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