§ Viscount CURZONasked the Minister of Transport whether his attention was called to a recent accident on the Great North Road, near Eaton Socon, where a motor lorry loaded with workers went over the hedge and capsized owing to the abnormal slippery nature of the road surface after rain, resulting in serious injury to eight men; whether he will direct inquiry to be made into the very slippery nature of most of the final carpets now being laid down to finish the new main arterial roads as well as the foregoing case; and whether the Ministry will endeavour to do something at once to remedy these defects?
§ Mr. GOSLINGAs I have already informed the Noble Lord, complaints have been brought to my notice. I am, accordingly, arranging for some further experiments, with a view to discovering the best means of overcoming the difficulty.