Road Dangers: Parents Can Set An Example
*Of the 53 children under scliool age involved in traflic accid'ents in L'.M?, one was killed Thi.s shows a considerable reductiotx when compared with the two killed and 75 injured during 1946. These statistics are contained in the annual report of the Transport Department tabled befoi'e the House of Represontatives. ' Traflic accidents in 1947 where a scliool pupil was injured were sligluly more numerous 'than in 1946, both among pedestrians and among cyclists. The easualtiea, with 1946 figures .in parontheses, are as followt Pedesl fians 8 (8) killed and 158 (151) injured; cyclists 4 (6) killed and 203 (181) injured. . 1 • "Altliough, m relation to. the numlier • of motor vehicles there has been little or no incieaso*in the number oi' accidents to children, these are ihe saddest. of all road accidents, " said the f'onimissionef of Transport (Mr. G. L. Laurenson. "These al'e still too high. " It is felt that if the parents, particularly When accompanied by their children, were to observe the rules of the road, the children would follow their 'good example. In this way a reducti.on in these accidents might he brought about.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1948, Page 4
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