TOLL OF THE MOTOR.
INCREASE IN FATALITIES. TOTAL OF 176 LAST YEAR. In a report embodying the mortality figures fop.- New Zealand for L 928 the Government Statistician says that the number of deaths recorded from all accidental causes was 744, corresponding to a rate of 5.35. This compared with 656 and 4.77 for the previous year. Most unsatisfactory, however, was the fact that deaths from mo-tor-vehicle accidents recorded an appreciable increase. “The number of deaths attributable to such accidents during 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928 are 94, 108, 149, 138 and 176 respectively. These figures,” says the report, “are exclusive of such accidents where persons have been killed in collisions between motor vehicles and trains or.- trams. For 1928 there were 12 deaths from such accidents, bringing- the total number of cases in which death occurred where a motor vehicle was an agent up to 188. The corresponding figure for 1927 was 152.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3971, 16 July 1929, Page 3
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155TOLL OF THE MOTOR. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3971, 16 July 1929, Page 3
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