63. Mr. Creech Jonesasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to an accident in the London Road, Isleworth, on 4th April, in which four children from Marlborough Infants' School were knocked down and injured by a motor car; and will he say whether a policeman was on duty to assist the children across the road when they were leaving school and, if not, why not?
§ The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)I am informed that there were two officers on duty near the school at the point where the children have to cross a main road on their way to and from their homes. The children who were knocked down had crossed another road, which they need not normally cross, apparently to play in some sand, and were hit while they were running back to the side of the road on which the school lies. They were not observed either by the police officers or by the driver of the car as they were hidden by a stationary lorry.