§ SIR THOMAS DEWAR (Tower Hamlets, St. Georges)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, having regard to the number of accidents in the streets of the Metropolis with covered vans, owing to the drivers being unable to see passing and following traffic, he will state whether any regulations have yet been framed regulating the construction of such vans, if so, will he state their nature; and whether it is proposed to recommend their adoption in other large cities of the Kingdom.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Alters Douglas.) This matter has been the subject of long and anxious consideration, and the London County Council have now, with my approval, made a bye-law requiring all vehicles to be so constructed that the driver shall have a full and uninterrupted view of the traffic in front and abreast of him on each side. The bye-law will come into operation on the 1st May next. Similar bye-laws have been adopted in several large towns; but it rests, in the first instance, with the local authority having power to make bye-laws to decide whether the local circumstances render a provision on the subject desirable.