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Table No. 9. —Number and Type of Motor Accidents occurring in the Larger Centres of Population during Calendar Year 1947

Table No. 10.—Classification of Road Users killed or injured each Month during Calendar Year 1947

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Type of Accident. Auckland ! Metropolitan 1 Area. Wellington City. Christchurch City. Dunedin City. Lower Hutt City. Palmerston North City. Wanganui City. Invercargill City. Hamilton City. H Number of fatal accidents* Number of Collisions With other motor-vehicle .. With railway train With electric tram With bicyclist With pedestrian With telegraph or power pole Other collisions Non-collisions Vehicle left road Vehicle overturned Person fell from vehicle Other Total number of accidents* 23 8 11 5 6 1 3 4 61 195 3 11 105 248 21 27 11 5 12 3 96 1 13 36 146 21 22 6 6 6 7 77 1 15 145 36 13 7 4 3. 1 28 1 3 25 29 5 2 5 ' 6 29 30 11 2 3 0 1 4 3 19 30 6 1 2 1 1 14 3 30 8 3 1 2 17 2 22 4 1 23 1 29 16 2 4 2 498 9 45 452 504 68 67 27 19 33 14 641 360 302 104 85 60 61 46 77 1,736 * Includes 14 accidents (one fatal) which occurred in the four Metropolitan centres outside 30 m.p.h. limit, and included in Table No. 8 as "open-road" accidents.

Number of Persons killed and injured. Month. Occupants Motor-cyclists of Motoror PillionBicyclists. Pedestrians. Other. Total. vehicles. riders. - January 228 49 37 48 2 364 February 205 59 55 42 3 364 March 241 79 89 63 8 480 April 251 60 87 70 9 477 May 245 49 78 87 9 468 June 219 37 75 85 10 426 July 194 35 58 88 4 379 August 238 52 58 75 7 430 September 183 54 58 55 4 354 October 205 69 63 51 3 391 November 231 61 67 49 3 411 December 234 73 64 50 3 424 Totals 2,674 677 789 763 65 4,968