STREET ACCIDENTS.
A return was issued last mouth by the British Home Office showing the number of accidents resulting in death or personal injury caused by vehicles during 1913. Taking United Kingdom, the number of accidents of all kinds caused by vehicles reached a total of 44,463, being an increase of ovW 6000 on the figures for 1912. Of this total 2099 were fatal accidents, 1663 of which occurred in England, including 579 within the Metropolitan Police district, the non-fatal accidents within the same area numbering 18,365. When, these accidents are classified according to the kind of vehicle by which they were caused it is found that of the 2099 fatal accidents in the United Kingdom, 724 were caused by horse-drawn vehicles and 1375 by mechanically-propelled vehicles, while for 42,544 non-fatal accidents the figures were 13,617 and 28,927 respectively. The motor-omnibus was responsible for 226 fatal, and 3722 nonfatal accidents, as against 178 fatal and 6708 non-fatal accidents attributed to tramcars. “Other mechanicallypropelled vehicles’’ wore the cause of 971 fatal and 18,497 non-fatal accidents.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6, 28 April 1914, Page 4
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174STREET ACCIDENTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6, 28 April 1914, Page 4
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