The Abolition of Level‘crossings.
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FitOINI a table giving the number of accidents at railway level-crossings from 1915 to 1925, recently placed before Parliament, it appears that in the latter year there were 39 accidents and 23 fatalities On public road crossings, and 41 accidents and 32 fatalities on private and footpath cressings. Throughout the ten years the annual total number of accidents ranged from 51 to 93 and the number of fatalities frffin 34 to 67. These figures surely emphasize the urgency for steps being taken by local authorities to get rid of levelcrossings wherever possible. The cost to the community must in a very few years be recovered by the saving of time, quite apart from the great consideration of saving valuable life. The Minister of Transport has frequently offered to assist schemes for road diversion or` bridge building.