To Buses : Accidents Semi-finals in Next ncrease in London Year's Drivers' Contest?
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DAD accidents in London during May, 1958, when there were no buses ause of the strike, rose by 30 per cent. ipared with the corresponding month 1957. In particular, cyclists accounted 27.4 per cent. of casualties. Taking year as a whole, total casualties went by 16.4 per cent. to 64,200, compared a the 1957 figure, and 19.8 per cent, his number was made up of cyclists, a the statistical analysis of last year's I accidents in the capital, published week by the Metropolitan Police, the iptionally high toll that occurred in y is attributed to the increased number /chides on the roads during the bus te.
, total of 990 persons was killed or red in 1958 while boarding or alightfrom public service vehicles, whilst +e were 1,671 deaths and injuries living coach and bus passengers. se are respective decreases of 27.3 per :. and 5.2 per cent, from the previous -'s figures. Fifty-nine passengers in iy goods vehicles and 1.317 in light were injured.
f 86.769 vehicles involved in acci:s, 11,860 were light goods vehicles, 3 buses and coaches, 690 trolleybuses 1.569 heavy goods vehicles. The res for goods vehicles are greater than 957, although passenger-vehicle statisare lower. AT the request of the promoters of the Manchester round, a meeting of the national organizing committee of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition was held in Coventry on Wednesday to consider, among other matters, next year's eliminating contest and the possibility of holding semi-finals.
The method of computing results, the possible elimination of timing and the question of excluding unladen weight in the three classes for articulated vehicles were other subjects under review.
This year's final is to be held at the old R.N.A.S. station at Bramcote, near Nuneaton, instead of at Baginton, on September 20.
REGISTRATIONS SWING UP
rOMPAR1SON of registrations of new
commercial vehicles in March and April with the figures for the corresponding months of last year probably show the beginning of an upsurge in demand with the removal of purchase tax on goods-vehicle chassis.
In March, 23,295 vehicles were newly registered--almost as many as in the third month of 1958 (23,494). But whereas the total for April, 1958, was 19.425. the figure for last April was 3.493 higher at 22,918. Details appear in the accompanying table.