§ Mr. W. J. Brownasked the Minister of War Transport whether he will make available any statistics he has showing the number of accidents to children which take place immediately before and immediately after the school-leaving hour.
§ Mr. BarnesThe accident records kept during the war do not include the figures for which the hon. Member asks, but a special investigation by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents of fatal accidents to children in the months of May, June and July, 1942,indicated that of 291 cases 41 occurred while the child was going to or from school.