British Safety Methods Studied
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TWENTY-TWO road-safety experts from 15 countries met in London on Monday for two weeks study of road traffic and safety problems. The course has been arranged by the British Council and the Ministry of Transport in conjunction with other organizations. Members of the course, the first of its kind to be organized by the British Council, were welcomed by the Minister of Transport Those taking part were representatives of Belgium, Ceylon, Israel, Luxemburg, Malaya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Tanganyika, Turkey, Finland, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, as well as of Britain.
The object of the course is to explain how the problems of road traffic and safety are dealt with by education, enforcement and engineering, and the programme consists of talks, visits and films. Members are seeing traffic signal and street lighting installations and an accident" black spot" in London. They visited Newmarket Races on Tuesday to inspect traffic-control arrangements and are calling at the Road Research laboratory at Langley, Bucks, today and tomorrow.
Next week, members will see something of road-safety week arrangements, with visits and demonstrations arranged by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. They will also visit Hendon police driving school, Scotland Yard and the London Transport drivers' training school at Chiswick.
On October 23, they will visit Wolverhampton for a demonstration by the Goodyear company, and the next day they will inspect the Nuneaton proving ground of the Motor Industry Research Association.