§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give for the most convenient and longest period of time, details of road accidents in the Metropolitan Police area where persons have been injured or killed due to being knocked down in which a contributory cause was the obscuring of vision to motorists by parked vehicles; in how many of these cases were children involved; and whether he will give separate figures for the area covered by the London Borough of Newham.
§ Mr. Elystan MorganThe figures for pedestrians known to the police to have become casualties while crossing the road and masked by a stationary vehicle in the period 1959–68 are:
(a) (b) (c) Year All age groups Number of (b who were children under 15 1959 … … 3,653 1,653 1960 … … 4,057 1,890 1961 … … 4,064 2,034 1962 … … 4,145 2,016 1963 … … 4,398 2,293 1964 … … 4,755 2,416 1965* … … 5,269 2,749 1966 … … 4,914 2,665 1967 … … 4,929 2,931 1968 … … 5,002 2,989 * Enlargement of the Metropolitan police district following the coming into force of the London Government Act 1963. It would involve a disproportionate effort to obtain separate figures for the London Borough of Newham.