MR. CATHCART WASONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in consequence of the increasing mortality caused by mechanically propelled vehicles, he will instruct the chief constables of every county and borough in the United Kingdom to send in half-yearly returns to the Home Office of all accidents, fatal and otherwise, caused by motor cars, cycles, and omnibuses, and by horse-drawn vehicles, respectively; and that an annual report of such accidents shall be made to the House of Commons, as in the case of railway accidents.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe Registrar-General furnishes complete returns of fatal accidents caused by vehicles, and particulars of all accidents of this kind which come to the knowledge of the police in the Metropolis are supplied by the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. I will make inquiry to see whether and Low far it would be possible to obtain from provincial forces information similar to that furnished by the Metropolitan Police.