§ Mr. Pounderasked the Minister of Transport what percentage of road accidents involving motor cars was attributed to motorists driving at speeds in excess of the authorised levels in 1963 and 1964, respectively.
§ Mr. Tom FraserThis information is not available. To classify accidents by reference to speed alone would be misleading, since other factors are present in many of them. It is, in any case, difficult to establish speeds after the accident.
Mr. Gresham Cookeasked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of the Report of the World Meteorological Organisation relating accidents to weather 221W conditions, he will ask the Road Research Laboratory to investigate any correlation between weather and road accidents over holiday periods.
§ Mr. Tom FraserThe importance of weather as a factor affecting vision and road surfaces is well known. Any new evidence in this report that it has a physiological effect will be studied with interest by the Road Research Laboratory.