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Fatalities on British Roads in 2005
Fatalities of motorcyclists on British roads are generally presented by government as representing 1% of traffic and 20, 30 or 40 times greater than car occupants.
The purpose of this table is to suggest that this is not the case.
Accordingly, as highlighted in the table, motorcycles, scooters and mopeds represent 4.4% of vehicles on the road, and 17.8% of fatalities or 3 times less than car occupants.
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2005
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Fatalities 2005
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% of all Fatalities
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Motorcycles&Scooters
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1193500
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Pedestrians
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671
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21.0
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Mopeds
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173600
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Cyclists
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148
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4.6
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Total
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1367100
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PTWs
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569
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17.8
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Cars
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30674600
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Cars
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1675
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52.3
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Commercial vehicles
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385970
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Bus
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9
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0.3
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Total
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31060570
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Commercial
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109
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3.4
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PTWs as % of all road users
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4.4
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Total Fatalities
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3201
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Source: MCIA 2005 Motorcycle/Scooter and Moped parc
Source: SMMT 2005 Car and Commercial vehicle parc
Source: DfT Road Casualties in GB Main Results 2005
Elaine Hardy National Research Officer
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