§ 60. Mr. WATTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the number of deaths caused by the tramcars in the city of Glasgow, and particularly on some of the high gradients; and whether he will take any action to reduce the speeds permitted there by his Department, which are as much as sixteen miles an hour?
Mr. ROBERTSONThirteen fatal accidents have been reported to the Board of Trade as having occurred on the Glasgow Corporation Tramways during the present year, eight of which were due to persons 2184 being knocked down by a car. None, however, of these accidents occurred on steep gradients, and in no case does the speed appear from the reports made by the corporation, to have exceeded twelve miles an hour. A speed of sixteen miles is, as my hon. Friend states, permitted on certain portions of the corporation tramways, but on steep gradients lower limits of speed have been imposed.
§ Mr. JONATHAN SAMUELCan the hon. Gentleman give us any comparison between the death rate due to tramcar accidents in London and the rate in Glasgow?