Safer on the road

Sir,

In the annual Reports of the Road Research Board and the Director of Road Research for 1962 it is suggested that motor vehicles travelled over 78,000 million miles in 1962. There were about 7,000 deaths on the roads so that for every death about 10,000,000 miles were covered. Statistically it is probably true that one is safer on the roads than in a house!

J.K. Roberts.
Prestwood.

[I have always maintained that road-users should receive praise for the enormous mileages they cover on our inadequate roads with comparatively few accidents.—Ed.]