HC Deb 18 December 1958 vol 597 cc236-7W
Mr. J. Taylor

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state the number of road accidents on trunk road A.8 between the city boundaries of Edinburgh and Glasgow during the years 1956, 1957 and the latest available figures for 1958, the number of persons involved, and the number of fatalities.

Mr. Maclay

Details of road accidents involving personal injury reported on trunk road A.8 in the counties of Midlothian, West Lothian and Lanarkshire in 1956, 1957 and the first ten months of 1958 are as follows:

— Accidents involving injury Persons injured and killed Persons killed
1956 125 195 13
1957 102 152 7
1958 (January-October) 105 168 5
332 515 25