The Bressey Report and the conclusions of the House of
Lords Select Committee on Road Accidents formed the principal stock-in-trade of those who took part in Wednesday's debate on the Ministry of Transport vote. Miss Megan Lloyd George delivered a telling attack upon the Ministerial view that only 1.5 per cent. of accidents are due to the condition of the roads. She had provided herself with a formidable mass of evidence to show that even the removal of defects in the existing roads would produce a marked effect upon the level of casualties. She and other speakers dwelt on the failure of the Government to carry out the five-year road programme which was promised at the last election and which was to cost Et oo,000,000. We are now nearly at the end of the fourth year and the total expenditure is only £3i,000,000.
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