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Laura Hartson
Articlesbase
July 14, 2011
Author: Laura Hartson
Road safety is something that is always in the forefront of the minds of drivers, as accidents are not only tragic but time consuming on our day when we get caught it tailbacks and traffic incidents.
So it comes as great news to hear that annual deaths on our roads have fallen to below two thousand for the first time since these figures have been recorded, which the Royal Society of the Prevention of Accidents put down to the road safety strategy adopted in the UK.
In 2010 there were just over one thousand eight hundred deaths on the roads of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and this is a reduction of three hundred and sixty five on the year before. The number of road deaths of children has also lessened, with the statistics falling by a third to fifty five, and a lot less children injured on the roads.
Although this is great news, it seems the figures for the deaths of cyclists is a little more disappointing, with one hundred and eleven cyclists killed in the last year which is an increase of seven percent since 2009.
Kevin Clinton, RoSPA's head of road safety, said: "That road accident deaths have fallen below 2,000 for the first time since records began in the 1920s is a significant achievement, and particularly considering that much of the reduction has happened in very recent history - in the mid-1980s, for example, road deaths stood at around 5,500 a year.
"This achievement proves the value and effectiveness of a comprehensive road safety strategy which has strong government leadership and involves the joint working of the road safety community. We obviously need to understand fully the reasons for the significant reduction in deaths from 2009 to 2010; it might be that the economic downturn has had a part to play, through a reduction in traffic and lower speeds, and perhaps also the particularly harsh winter. But there is no doubt that Britain's world-leading strategic approach to road safety has provided the context for continuous casualty reduction for several decades.
It does however need to be said that the safety campaigns need to stay strong to keep safety in the forefront of the minds of drivers.
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