“INCREDIBLE” TOLL
OF BRITISH HIGHWAYS EIGHTEEN KILLED EVERY DAY The National Safety Congress in London recently considered the il gravest problem of modern transport” confronting all countries, that of road accidents and, the Minister for Transport (Mr P. J. Pybus) declared that "tho incredible toll of British roads could not be allowed to continue.”
Statistics produced show that in 1931 the number killed and injured daily on British roads was 18 and 550, respectively. In 1930, the year in which the Road Traffic Act was passed, 20 were killed daily. Sir Henry Piggott, Deputy Secretary for the Ministry, said the reduction of the total killed for the year by 614 might indicate that the fatal curve had stopped rising.
But more recent figures for Greater London showed 314 killed in the first ■quarter of 1932, against 289 in the corresponding period of 1931.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 127, 24 May 1932, Page 2
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