§ SIR JOSEPH DIMSDALE (City of London)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the cases of a cyclist who was killed on Monday, on the road between Kew Bridge and Gunnersbury, and of a cyclist, on Saturday last, whilst riding between Hampton Court and Hampton, when a car of the London United Tramway Company knocked
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§ him down, causing him severe injury; and whether, in view of the introduction of electric tram cars on the public roads, he will consider the desirability of steps being taken for the protection of the public.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas) I have made enquiries and find that, in the first of the two cases mentioned, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and that it does not appear that there was any negligence on the part of the driver of he electric tram car or any breach of the law as to speed. I understand that the case is being further considered by the Board of Trade. I cannot trace the second case mentioned. The police have received no information as to injury-caused on Saturday, the 18th April, to a cyclist between Hampton Court and Hampton.