'Madness these loads on suicide road'
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THE HAULING of huge tonnages of coal by Wm. Dobson (Edinburgh) Ltd. along a road with a bad accident record was condemned by Kirkcaldy safety committee last week.
Mr. Alex. Birrell, a businessman, said that the National Coal Board had awarded a contract to the firm to carry 2,000/2,500 tons of coal a day—from Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy—which would have to go along the KirkcaldyInverkeithing road.
"This road already has a very bad record,he said, "and drivers are calling it 'suicide road'. Surely this is a case where the coal should have gone by rail. Taking it on this road is inexplicable—just madness."
Committee chairman Cllr. Ferguson Collins, a road haulage firm manager, said the coal was being hauled to the new £100m power station at Langannet, not yet in operation. So the coal was being stockpiled by lorries in day and night shifts.
An NCB spokesman said in due course the coal would go by rail.