THE DEADLY MOTOR
TRAGIC DEATH ROLL ON THE LONDON STREETS Londort, October- 18 : iDespite the warning issued by the | Metropolitan Police Gommissioner, [ Lord Trenchard last July, motor-cars ; killed 270 and injured 15,538 in Lonn | don during the tliree months ended \ September 30, 1933. Private ears were | I'esponsible for one-tMrd of the cas- | ralties. I In his report issued last July Lord I Trenchard said: "Private cars were I being driven less carefully and skilI fully. He described as terrible the |Wl of easualties. A retum of LonI don's street deaths disclosed that for 1 the first six anonth's of 1933 those I killed numhered 338, and those injur15,676, increases of 73 and 1877 ■jjfepeetively comipared with last year. Mle report adds that pedestraans Ipri&st recognise that the roads require ithe same care in crossip® as a railIway line. It could not he necessary ( W' three or four people to he killed idaily."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 667, 20 October 1933, Page 5
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152THE DEADLY MOTOR Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 667, 20 October 1933, Page 5
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