DEFECTIVE MOTOR TYRES
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
SIR,—There is a truly remarkable omission in the Report by the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the prevention of road accidents. No reference of any kind is made to defective tyres.
Yet for the year ending March 31st, 1937, comprising the latest available figures on matter, there were 7,064 prosecu- tions throughout the country against motorists using defective tyres, an increase of 90 over the previous year. In addition, there were during the same period thousands of accidents under different heads, a proportion of which might certainly be traced to defective tyres, for example: skidding (6,979), misjudging of clearance distance, and so on (6,160, swerving (3,177), losing control (2,281), failing to comply with traffic sign or light (1,676), and failing to stop at a pedestrian crossing place (1,238).
It is deplorable that such a fruitful cause of dangers on the highway should have been ignored by an official Report of out- standing importance.—Yours faithfully, 17 Hanover Square, W. I.
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