Accidents. MOTORS COMPARE WELL.
The Automobile Club dv Rhone has issued a return of the accidents which have occurred in the Departments of Rhone and Am between Ist January and 20th March last. Railway accidents were 36 in number, causing the deaths of 9 persons and injury to 19 others ; 69 tramway accidents resulted in 4 deaths and 48 injured ; horse-drawn vehicle mishaps brought about the death of 8 persons and injury to 110 others. Finally, the number of automobile accidents in which 13 persons were injured, was 24 ; no deaths, however, occurred.
A Renard road train with 75 h.p. tractor was recently tested in Dublin, Ireland, and those interested in the problems of transportation in Ireland, apart from the railway companies, regard it as having great possibilities for the de\elopment of the country districts of the island
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Progress, Volume III, Issue 9, 1 July 1908, Page 306
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138Accidents. MOTORS COMPARE WELL. Progress, Volume III, Issue 9, 1 July 1908, Page 306
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