Fewer Accidents: Better Road Signs T HE building of MI motorway
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seemed to have reduced accidents by about 1,000 a year and fatalities by about 30, said Dr. R. J. Sneed of the Road Research Laboratory when he addressed the section dealing with road transport on the first day of a two-day accidentprevention convention organized by the Royal College of Surgeons in London this week. Dr. Smeed said that if this sort of thing could he done on a large scale—motorways, by-passes, shopping precincts and so forth—he thought accidents would go down quite drastically.
Summing up at the close of thc first day, Mr. Ernest Marples said the road signs in this country were " rotten ": they were in the wrong places, were not aesthetic' and did not serve their porpose, He said that a forthcoming report would show what a decent system of road signs should be.
Mr. Marples said he honestly believed that vehicles should be fir for driving in the same way that a driver must pass his test. He refused to accept the argument that until you can prove a faulty vehicle caused accidents you should not have vehicle testing; the onus of proof was on the person who took the "lethal weapon " on to the road, and figures proved this.