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SLOUGH EXPERIMENT SHOWS RESULTS

18th October 1957, Page 48
18th October 1957
Page 48
Page 48, 18th October 1957 — SLOUGH EXPERIMENT SHOWS RESULTS
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POSITIVE evidence that road safety can be increased by a combination of new and old methods has been afforded by the Slough experiment. This is claimed in a report on the scheme published on Tuesday by the Stationery Office, at 5s.

Among the methods found to be the most successful were vehicle tests, training schemes for drivers and cyclists, and yellow lines on the 'road to mark no-waiting areas, with double yellow lines to show where loading restrictions applied.

During the two years of the experiment, the number of fatal and seriousinjury accidents fell by 8 per cent:, compared with the two previous years, it is stated