§ MR. BROOKE ROBINSON (Dudley)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether (be Returns annually made by coroners distinguish in the case of road accidents those caused by motor-propelled vehicles from those caused by horse-drawn vehicles; and, if no distinction is made, whether he will direct coroners in future to do so.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The annual Returns made to me by coroners do not distinguish between accidents caused by horsed and those caused by motor vehicles. They do not even distinguish road accidents from other accidental causes of death, their object being merely to exhibit the legal aspect of the cause of death, i.e., murder, suicide, accident, etc. The distinction suggested could not, I think, be made appropriately in the Return.