§ MR. RAWSON SHAW (Halifax)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, owing to the numerous accidents caused to pedestrians by cyclists, he will take practical and speedy steps to remedy this growing danger to the public, by giving strict injunctions to the police to use every endeavour to ascertain the correct name and address of those who cause these accidents, so that they may at any 1410 rate be obliged to explain their conduct if called upon?
§ MR. ASQUITHThe police use every endeavour to prevent furious riding on bicycles and tricycles, and to enforce the carrying of lamps and bells, or whistles. A public notice is issued by the Commissioner and distributed periodically, calling attention to the law on the subject. Proceedings are taken when practicable, but there is a certain difficulty in this, as bicycles and tricycles are not numbered, and their identification is difficult. It is a question whether it may not become necessary to make it compulsory for cycles to bear a registered number conspicuously displayed.
§ LORD R. CHURCHILL (Paddington, S.)Has the attention of the right hon. Gentleman been drawn to the case of the pneumatic-tyred cycles, which come silently and stealthily upon one?
§ MR. ASQUITHMy experience is not that of the noble Lord. I hear them continually ringing bells.