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Motorways (Overhead Lighting)

Volume 887: debated on Tuesday 4 March 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will now make a statement on the effect of the introduction of overhead motorway lighting on accident and casualty rates.

No definite figures are available but indications from studies here and overseas are that reductions in the range 30 per cent.-50 per cent. can be achieved by lighting.