§ MR. SCOTT MONTAGU (Hampshire, New Forest)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number and nature of accidents known to the Metropolitan Police to have been caused in the Metropolitan Police district in the year 1904 by horse3, horse-drawn vehicles (other than tram-cars), tramcars, motorcars, and motorcycles.
587 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers Douglas.) The following table gives the
| Cause of accident | Total number of accidents to persons or property | Number of accidents to property | Number of accidents to persons. | Total number of persons injured in the accidents shown in Column IV. | Nature of accidents enumerated in column. | ||
| Number slight | Number serious | Number fatal | |||||
| (I.) | (II.) | (III.) | (IV.) | (V.) | (VI.) | (VII.) | (VIII.) |
| Horses | 641 | 444 | 193 | 209 | 181 | 28 | — |
| Horse-drawn vehicles (excluding tramcars) | 21,771 | 16,834 | 5,798 | 5,989 | 5,193 | 676 | 120 |
| Tramcars (horse drawn) | 1,287 | 1,060 | 246 | 260 | 222 | 35 | 3 |
| Tramcars (mechanically propelled) | 2,292 | 1,785 | 528 | 539 | 470 | 65 | 4 |
| Omnibuses (mechanically propelled) | 30 | 12 | 19 | 22 | 18 | 2 | 2 |
| Motor-cars | 1,775 | 1,395 | 426 | 458 | 367 | 78 | 13 |
| Motorcycles | 274 | 151 | 153 | 164 | 146 | 14 | 4 |
| Total | 28,070 | 21,681 | 7,363 | 7,641 | 6,597 | 898 | 146 |