NEARLY 5000 DEAD
This Year's Road Toll in Britain INJURED NUMBER 170,397 (Eeeeived 13, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. . Eoad deatks in Britain for September totalled 583, an increase of 16 compared with last September. Tke totals for 1937 are: Dead, 48'21; injured, 170,397. Fatalities on speed-limit roads were more than three times greater tkan on roads wkere tkere is no speed limit. As a protest against tke laek of safety and traffie signals, mothers and children formed g, living barrier across tke roadway at North Kensington, forcing the traffie to stop.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 17, 13 October 1937, Page 5
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