ROAD ACCIDENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 9

ROAD ACCIDENTS

BRITAINS HIGH RECORD SIX THOUSAND PERSONS KILLED A Home Office return shows that 6,138 people were killed in road and street accidents in Great Britain dm - ing 1925. The number injured totalled 164,838. There is an increase of 788 in the total killed in England and Wales compared with the previous year, but a reduction of 15.495 in the injured. There were 17,732 more accidents in England and Wales than in 1927. The report, which consists of seven pages of tables, shows that the fatal accidents in England and Wales numbered 5,353. and the accidents in which there was no loss of life 129,199. The figures for Scotland were—fatal. 1,625; non-fatal, 12,405. The figures given are; England and Wales. Scotland. Persons killed .. .. unpersons injured .. .- 1 oU,M» i*.,s Toll in Big Cities The following table shows the returns from London and the bis cities, and those Lancashire towns where the total number of accidents reached I 200: —

uirmiußna*" —— The statistics for Scotland were: Killed. Private cars and taxi-cabs 181 J.-jj; Motor-vans and lorries .. ljo Motor-omnibuses & coaches 1 • 1 - 1 Electric tramcars and trolley b uses - - - - I® Of the total fatal accidents no fewer than 1,593 were attributable to motorcycles. of which 448 were machines with pillion riders. The non-fatal accidents in which motor-cycles weninvolved resulted in Injury to 45.888 persons, the machines carrying pillion riders accounting for 12,606 of these Private cars and taxi-cabs in Knc [ land and Wales accounted for 1,68:: deaths and injuries to 49,716. Motorvans and lorries caused 1,029 death and injured 15,744. Motor-omnibuse and coaches were responsible for 62" 1 deaths, with injuries to 7,859 persons, i while the respective figures for ele<- ! trie tramcars and trolley buses wen r 95 and 5,131. f Horses and Pedal-Cycles e There were 4,122 accidents in England and Wales caused by horsee drawn vehicles and horses, these a< | counting for 194 deaths and injurie- ‘ to 4,330 persons. Pedal-cycles were _ involved in 23,194 accidents, in whic h - 398 persons were killed and 24,713 injured. e In London there were 8,579 an - it dents caused by pedal-cycles. Among e the large cities Birmingham leads with d and Liverpool follows closely with Lt 9g4* Manchester's accidents attri l * butable to the pedal-cyclist totalled :t The accidents caused by horse dra* ! 7 vehicles and horses in Scotland g totalled 601, these resulting in 26 persons being killed and 591 injured. The h 1.671 accidents to pedal-cycles in the ;- same area caused 31 deaths and noar . fatal iaiuiie* ta UW person*, . „

■ Total Accd’ ts. Killed. Injured. TilLondon City 301 15 920 Metropolitan Police dist. Manchester . Salford - Liverpool . 50,455 2,340 TOO 4,056 1,237 36 78 54,461 3,193 807 4,295 55,69* *>«* M3 4,373 Lancaster County . - 3.758 234 4,390 287 4.62 4 Blackburn 268 Blackpool Bolton . . . 360 497 8 519 223 541 Burnley 217 10 16 12 Oldham . Preston . • Rochdale - - 248 333 200 351 208 367 220 Bootle . . • Leicester . - 208 628 25 665 690 Xewcastle-on Tyne - . - Nottingham . 735 882 21 40 772 987 793 1.027 Stoke-on-37 14 34 *57 126 584 Trent . . - Hull • . - Bradford . . Leeds Sheffield Birmingham 090 08 8 1,409 1,369 3,891 784 794 1,527 1,456 4,260 798 828 1,581 1.313 4,3*6