Danger of Ice-cream Vans
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AR. FRASER told MPs last week that IVI he was examining possible means, legislative or other, of tackling the problem of accidents associated with the sale of ice-cream from vans.
He said it was not possible to say how many accidents involving personal injury had occurred through this cause, but his Area Road Safety Unit in Warwickshire had carried out studies of accidents to children under 15 in which ice-cream vehicles had been involved.
They found that in the four years 1961-64 during which 91 child pedestrians under 15 had been killed, and 4.671 injured on the roads in their area, six of the fatal accidents and 221 of the injury accidents had been associated with ice-cream vans.
In the first six months of 1965 there had been one fatal accident and 23 injury accidents of this kind.