DEATH AT LEVEL-CROSSINGS go the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] •
lamentable deaths- in an accident at a level- crossing. move you .to a strongly worded- paragraph. You mote that during this year no fewer than.twenty-one persons • have been killed at level-crossings. - 2 • You add, " This may be a small number compared with the total of the fatalities on the road; but it should be borne in mind
• _that all of these were preventable."
• • Are we to understand that the five thousand yearly fatalities --on the-open roads are the Act of God ?
. But I admit that your comment reflects Pretty aces r itely the' 'standard`" values in the public -mind in respect of the
slaughter on the road.—I am, Sir, &e., • • The Old Rectory, Offord Hufitingdon.
[Not many :readers • would find our language obscure: What was meant obviously was that the level-crossing deaths, can be prevented by mechanical means.—En, 'The. Speitatod
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