"SAFETY FIRST" AND LONDON'S TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS.
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WE THINK that there can be. no _ question that the skilful work of the " Safety First" Council has had a material effect in reducing the toll of human life which has been taken by fast: moving 'traffic all over the cou_ntry. Dealing only with the roads; it is significant that-passenger traffic in London% as shown by the return of " total passen
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gers carried on buses and trams" has increased from 1,548,000,000 yearly in 1913 to 2,030,000,000 in 1922. The figure reached in 1914 was 1,601,000,000, but the increase since that date is no less than 26 per cent.' The increase in the number of accidents, taking the years 1914 and 1922, is 18 per cent., so that the number a accidents has not increased
proportionately with the increase of traffic; which is a very good 'sign.
For all that, the number. is great,, as 684 People were killed and 26,322 were injured' in street accidents last year in London, whilst in Great Britain the figures were 2,768 and 67,429' respectively. The total number' of fatal a.ceidents on all railways in Great Britain,