FEWER ACCIDENTS.
When the motor speed limit was removed in England last ycar, under the new Road Traffic Act, therG was an outcry from a section of the English Press — the contention being that the number of street accidents would be greatly incrc.ased when the ioagimposed speed ban was lifted. A recent statement in the British Parliament by the Home Secretary disclosed the fact that aftor ten eonsecutive years, in which the number of street accidents has steadily Increased, the first year's operation of the new motor regulations liad seen an extremelv encouraging falling oiT in street fatalities. The official figures showed that nearly two lives had been saved every day in street accidents durmg 1931 — yery striking evldence that after all the "driving to the coramoa danger" by-law is definitely better prptection to the public than any aN»trary speed limit.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 237, 27 May 1932, Page 2
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141FEWER ACCIDENTS. Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 237, 27 May 1932, Page 2
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