§ 75. Mr. Bryant Godman Irvineasked the Minister of Transport, if he will now introduce legislation to enable county councils to ban the sale of ice cream from vehicles on classified roads.
§ Mr. Tom FraserI am examining possible means, legislative or other, of tackling the problem of accidents associated with the sale of ice cream from vehicles. This problem is not confined to classified roads.
§ 76. Mr. Bryant Godman Irvineasked the Minister of Transport how many fatal accidents and how many accidents involving personal injury have occurred during the last convenient period of 12 months, arising from the sale of ice cream from vehicles on classified roads.
§ Mr. Tom FraserThis information is not available. My Area Road Safety Unit in Warwickshire has carried out studies of accidents to children under 15 in which ice cream vehicles were involved. They found that in the four years 1961–64, during which 91 child pedestrians under 15 were killed and 4,671 injured on the roads in their area, six of the fatal accidents and 221 of the injury accidents were associated with ice cream vans. In the first six months of 1965 there was one fatal accident and 23 injury accidents of this kind. Many of these accidents occurred on unclassified roads.