HC Deb 08 February 1956 vol 548 cc1648-9
20. Mr. Page

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation the definition of injured for the purposes of inclusion in the statistics of road accidents issued by his Department.

Mr. Molson

Any person involved in a road accident who receives or may seem to need medical treatment is classified as injured.

Mr. Page

Has the attention of my hon. Friend been drawn to an article in a Sunday newspaper recently in which an official of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is reported as having said that these figures were inflated by 26,000? Will my hon. Friend publicly refute that statement by a society which is paid by the Government to propagate road safety?

Mr. Molson

My attention has been drawn to the article that appeared in the People. That article gave an extremely false impression. The statistics which are issued by the Ministry of Transport do not contain figures other than those relating to personal injury.