§ Mr. Watkinsasked the Minister of Transport whether he has conducted any experiments in the use of rubber road-surfacing with the object of preventing skidding and thereby decreasing the number of road accidents; and, if so, with what results?
§ Mr. Hore-BelishaYes, Sir, and the results appear in a paper entitled "Road Surface Resistance to Skidding" recently published by the Stationery Office.
§ Mr. Watkinsasked the Minister of Transport whether he has any statistics to show the reasons why road accidents in January, 1937, resulted in 73 more deaths and 285 more cases of injury than in January, 1936?
§ Mr. Hore-BelishaNo, Sir.
§ Sir D. Thomsonasked the Minister of Transport what was the number of fatal street accidents in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee, respectively, for the year ended 31st December, 1936?
§ Mr. Hore-BelishaThe numbers were as follow: Edinburgh, 59; Glasgow, 123; Aberdeen, 13; Dundee, 14.