Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1968Vol. 39, No. 9

Smashing traffic

p. 71 · Read in the full issue

Page 7171

statistics

The small French Pacific territory of Wallis and Futuna recently established what must surely be a record in the field of road traffic statistics.

Although there are only some 50 motor vehicles in the terri tory, eight of them were dam aged in one week in five separate accidents.

Among those who have re cently been injured in road accidents in the territory is the 84-year-old Vicar Apostolic of Wallis and Futuna, Monseigneur Poncet. He had to spend two days in bed after a Citroen he was travelling in overturned in a ditch.

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