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The Department for Transport's statistics chime with the EC's conclusion that road deaths are falling, with 14% fewer in 2008 than in 2007. However, adding together those that were killed or seriously injured reveals a total of 28,572 in 2008, just 7% fewer than in 2007.
Overall, the government's road safety strategy, announced in 2000, has met with success. There are fewer deaths among children, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists, as well as car occupants.
Targets included a 40% cut in the numbers killed or seriously injured on Britain's roads, and, so far, the medicine is working. In 2008, the total killed or seriously injured was 40% below the 1994-1998 average. Source: Road Casualties in Great Britain 2008 More information: