12 Roadsafety Facts
Jun 28 2022Nationally 3,500 die each year as a result of road crashes.
Nationally 40,000 are seriously injured on Britain’s roads.
Speed is the biggest contributory factor in road casualties.
At 30mph, vehicles travel 44 feet (about 3 car lengths) every second. Even in good conditions, the difference in stopping distance between 30mph and 35mph is an extra 21 feet, more than 2 car lengths.
Over half of car drivers killed die in accidents on country roads.
Accident risk rises the faster a driver travels. At 25% above the average speed, a driver is about six times as likely to have an accident than a driver travelling at the average speed.
The direct cost of road accidents involving deaths or injuries is approximately£3 billion a year.
Every £1 spent on safety camera enforcement is a £5 saving to the emergency services.
In 2001-2002, in Devon and Cornwall, 102 people were killed and 815 were seriously injured.
Two-thirds of all crashes in which people are killed or injured happen on roads with a speed limit of 30mph or less. At 35mph a driver is twice as likely to kill someone as they are at 30mph.
- Hit by a car at 40mph = 9 out of 10 pedestrians will be killed.
- Hit by a car at 30mph = about 50% of pedestrians will live.
- Hit by a car at 20mph = Only 1 out of 10 pedestrians will be killed.
10 People die and 100 people are seriously injured on Great Britain’s roads each day.
26% of the UK’s road deaths in 2001 involved road users in the 17-24 year old age group.