Road deaths have more than doubled since blackouts started, Capt. Euan Wallace, the Minister Transport, stated today that experiments to remedy street lighting during black-outs have so far been unsuccessful.
A total of 1,130 persons were: killed by accidents in Great Britain during September compared with 617 persons in August The present figures, however, do not deal with the period since petrol has been rationed and black-out restrictions have been modified slightly, The Coroner at Paddington suggests that-the speed limit should be halved in darkened streets—Reuter.
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