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Road Deaths Can Be Reduced Through Education and Enforcement
 Three thousand deaths and 237,000 injuries on the roads every year cost the NHS £470 million and the economy £8 billion according to the report Changing Lanes, published by the Audit Commission on 26 February 2007.
Britain’s roads are among the safest in the world, but a child pedestrian in England is three times more likely to die on our roads than in Italy and twice as likely as in France.
And while the number of people killed or seriously injured is falling overall, the number has increased for motorcyclists.
Councils have proved it is possible to reduce the number of road accidents by focusing on behavioural change among road users.
In one of the report’s case studies, the York and North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership shows how it took actions that helped reduce its road death toll from 85 in 2005 to 68 in 2006.
National report Here
Press release Here
Road safety area Here
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