U.K. Road Death Toll Worse
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LONDON, January 9
Officials analysing Britain’s road accident figures for last year fear that they may prove the highest for a peace-time year.
No total for the year has yet been published, but in the first eight months of last year there were 5 per cent more casualties than for the same period in 1964—the worst peace-time year—with] a total of 385.499 casualties, including 7820 deaths. Mr Tom Fraser, the Transport Minister at the time, said that 1965 “looks only too likely to surpass those terrible figures.”
[ During the four-day Christi mas period '6 died and 926 ■ were seriously injured, com- , pared with 81 killed and 951 ■ seriously injured in the corresponding four days of 1964.. But a Ministry spokesman] described the Christmas figures as “very disappointl ing.” as the first days of the , holiday had shown a much ■ bigger fall, largely wiped out bv higher figures later on.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 11
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157U.K. Road Death Toll Worse Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 11
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