HC Deb 23 July 1942 vol 382 cc164-5
27. Mr. William Brown

asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to take any action to bring before magistrates their responsibility for enforcing the Road Traffic Acts with the utmost rigour of the law?

Mr. H. Morrison

No, Sir. For securing greater safety and reducing the number of road accidents importance necessarily attaches to the manner in which courts of summary jurisdiction exercise the extensive powers conferred on them for dealing with offenders against the Road Traffic Acts—but I know of no grounds for the suggestion that magistrates generally are failing to exercise these powers with a proper sense of their public responsibilities.

Sir Ralph Glyn

Will the right hon. Gentleman take steps to acquaint the drivers of the Allied Forces in this country with the rules?

Mr. Morrison

I will consider that point.