§ MR. MARKHAMI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, seeing that Clause 4 of the Regulations for obtaining a certificate of fitness for motor omnibuses provides that the Commissioner of Police reserves the right to withdraw the same when granted if an omnibus is apt to skid unduly, he will state the number of fatal accidents and personal injuries caused by side-slip in the Metropolis during the first six months of this year, the number of lamp-posts destroyed, and in how many cases the licences of omnibuses have been withdrawn for causing accidents due to side-slip.
§ *MR. HERBERT SAMUELThe particulars of accidents due to side-slips could not be given without laborious search; the statistics now available include all accidents due to motor omnibuses. Skidding is, of course, common to all rubber-tyred vehicles, but every care is taken in licensing omnibuses to see that they are not specially liable to side-slip. No licences have been withdrawn during 1908 on this account.