§ Mr. BUCHANANasked the Minister of Transport (1) the number of persons who have been injured in the streets of Glasgow during the past year as a result of motor accidents; and the number of fatal and non-fatal accidents?
(2) If his attention has been called to the Report of the Chief Constable of Glasgow regarding the alarming increase in personal injury arising from motor traffic in the City of Glasgow; if he has received any representations on the subject; and what action he is prepared to take?
§ Colonel ASHLEYMy attention had not been drawn to the Report to which the hon. Member refers, but I am informed that during the year ended the 31st December, 1926, the latest period for which figures are available, the numfer of fatal and non-fatal accidents in Glasgow in which mechanically-propelled vehicles, including tramcars,
30WRoad Fund to each rural authority in the administrative County of Cornwall for the year 1926?
§ Colonel ASHLEYThe grants made from the Road Fund during the year 1926–27 to rural district councils in the administrative County of Cornwall were as follow:
were involved, was 112 and 3,049 respectively. The number of persons killed and injured in these accidents was 114 and 3,313 respectively. I hope that it will be possible to take action on the lines discussed at the recent conference on street accidents in the London area. Some of the points discussed at this conference are dealt with in the draft Road Traffic Bill, which I circulated a short time ago.