§ 43. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Minister of Transport, in view of the large number of road accidents causing injury and death in Great Britain, if he will, as an experiment, make an appeal to motorists all over Great Britain to dedicate one single day, to be called Road Safety Day and specified by him, to the nation-wide exercise of specially strict observance of the rules of the Highway Code; and if he will, as a consequence, use the result of that day as a guidance for his future policy in relation to road traffic.
§ Mr. MarplesWhile I have every sympathy with the intention behind the hon. and learned Member's Question, such evidence as there is does not go to show that a one-day concentration of effort would on the whole help to further road safety. As I said, however, in a recent debate in this House, I am referring this suggestion to the Departmental Road Safety Committee and to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents for further examination.
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§ 55. Mr. Bennasked the Minister of Transport when he intends to announce further road safety measures.
§ Mr. MarplesProposals for new measures are constantly being examined. Decisions are announced as soon as the necessary study and preparatory work have advanced enough to justify them.