The Perils of the Roads The increase in road accident
figures for 1933 over 1932 is alarming, not because the actual increment is great, but because hope that the situation was gradually improving is thus brusquely dispelled. To deplore what is happening is less pertinent than to • discuss what can be done to preVent its continuing to happen. In regard to that obvious importance attaches to the testimony of the highway authorities in the two counties, Surrey and Wiltshire, which alone show an -improvement for 1933 over 1932. Surrey, it is - interesting to observe, attributes its creditable record • to the development of new roads (which relieves the Congestion on the old) to the system of roundabouts at road junctions, and to non-skid. surfaces. Wiltshire has very much the same story to tell, particularly regardirig non-skid - roads, and some value- is also attributed to warning notices erected in large numbers. Experience in 'these matters is worth a good deal more than theory, and though the experience of -two counties alone may not go very far, it is at any rate better than the.experienee of counties which have seen their accident totals go up instead of down.
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