AIR RAID AND ROAD CASUALTIES
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THE Secretary of the National
" Safety First " Association strongly deprecates the comparisons which have recently been drawn between the number of deaths due to air taids and to road accidents respectively. Whilst casualties of both kinds can be minimized by common-sense precautions by the public, an unlucky bomb may produce a large number of unavoidable cases, but the idea that road casualties are inevitable is quite false.
The number of road fatalities during the first year of the war is likely to exceed 8,000. Since January they have been fewer than pre-war, whereas in the preceding four months they were quite as numerous, but with the shortening of daylight and the consequent lengthening of the black-out, they will quickly mount unless road users of all classes exercise more care. Peace-time traffic regulations still operate, and due regard should be paid to pedestrian crossings. Most of the victims are very young, and better supervision of children wouldoobviously have a good effect.