UK road fatalities fall by 5% despite rise in overall traffic levels

 
The number of fatalities in road accidents fell by 5% in the year ending September 2007, compared with the previous 12 months, according to statistics published by the Department for Transport.

Overall, casualties were down 4%, with a 2% reduction in killed and seriously injured casualties, compared with the previous 12 months. The total number of people killed or seriously injured over the year shows a 35 % reduction compared with the 1994-98 baseline set out by the Government’s Tomorrow’s roads safer for everyone strategy which was published in 2000 and aims to achieve a 40% reduction by 2010.

Due to data supply difficulties, the second quarter National Statistics bulletin on road accidents was not published as announced on 8 November. The missing data has now been received and estimates for the second quarter are included in the latest bulletin on the
department’s website .

Meanwhile, overall traffic levels rose by some 0.6% between 2006 and 2007 according to provisional statistics published by the Department for Transport. New figures published show there was a slight fall in traffic of 0.9% between the fourth quarters of 2006 and 2007, but that overall, the annual rate of growth is lower than 1.3% average between 2001 and 2006.

Final estimates will be published in July, but the provisional figures show that cars account for 78% of all motor vehicle traffic, light vans 14%, goods vehicles 6% and other vehicles 2%. Average vehicle delays on the slowest 10% of journeys rose from 3.78 to 4.05 minutes per 10 miles, while average journey times rose from 13.4 to 13.7 minutes per 10 miles.

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