§ Mr. M. BEAUMONTasked the Minister of Transport in what percentage of road accidents in the year 1935 and in the first three months of 1936 vehicles drawing trailers were involved?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAInformation in respect of the year 1935 is confined to fatal accidents, in which 8,730 vehicles were involved. Of these 152, or 1.74 per cent., were drawing trailers. Figures for the first three months of 1936 are not available.
§ Captain PLUGGEasked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been called to the congestion in the hospitals in the Rochester, Canterbury and Maidstone districts owing to motor accidents; and whether he can give any statistics as to the number of accidents which have occurred in Kent in the last month and the number of persons who, as a result, have been treated, or are being treated, in the local hospitals?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAStatistics of the number of victims of road accidents who receive treatment in hospitals are not furnished to my Department.