DEATH ON THE ROADS
INCREASE DURING WAR PERIOD. “Is the problem of road safety to be pigeon-holed during the war?” asks Mr J. A. A. Pickard, general secretary of the British "Safety First’’ Association. in a letter to "The Times.” "It is quite wraong and illogical to "It is quite wrong and illogical to compare road casualties with those due to air raids, but the latter need not entirely obscure the senseless waste of life due to thoughtless behaviour on the roads. More than 8000 persons were killed on the roads of Britain during the first 12 months of the war. a 25 per cent increase over the corresponding pre-war period. Nearly. 5000 of the victims were pedestrians, mostly elderly people walking in the black-out. During lhe next few months the blackout will descend during the peak hours of traffic, and. unless immediate remedial action bo taken, casualties mayi soar to the appalling levels of last year.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1941, Page 2
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157DEATH ON THE ROADS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1941, Page 2
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