§ MR. WEIRTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the number of accidents which have occurred on the Glasgow Corporation Electric Tramway system during the year ending the 1st June last, distinguishing fatal accidents to persons from injuries to persons not resulting in death; and will he quote the number of accidents causing damage to goods, vehicles, animals, and other property.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) The Glasgow Corporation have informed me that the number of accidents causing injuries to persons on their tramway system in the year ended the 31st ultimo was 100, of which nineteen were fatal. During the same period there were twenty-eight accidents causing material injury to property. The corporation add that in the year in question their cars ran 16,291,082 miles, and carried 188,982,610 passengers.