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Road deaths down by 7%
12th May 2005, Page 12
12th May 2005
Page 12
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THE N UMBER OF people killed or seriously injured in accidents on Britain's roads has fallen 7% over the past year.
The Department for Transport's provisional report Casualties in Great Britain reveals there were 208.190 road accidents in 2004; down from 214,030 in 2003. The number of people killed or seriously injured fell from 7% to 29,850, while the number of slight injuries fell 3% to 208,190. Road traffic levels rose 2%.
A spokeswoman for road safety campaign group Brake says this is good news: "However, there is still a long way to go to reach government targets and to get to a situation where no-one is killed on our roads. The government should look at reducing the speed limit around schools to 20mph to help reach these targets."