BBC launches website showing deaths on British roads over past ten years

The BBC has launched a website, as part of the BBC News website, showing deaths on British roads over past ten years.

The website pages explain that for an everyday activity, travelling by road is probably the riskiest thing many of us do on a regular basis.

On average, some seven people are killed every day on the roads in Great Britain. Hundreds more are injured, many of them seriously, often with life changing consequences.

In 2008 alone, 2,538 people died and nearly a quarter of a million were injured.

In the last ten years, the death toll has amounted to 32,298. As such road crashes are the largest single cause of accidental death for people aged between 5 and 35 years.

Crash – Deaths on British roads in graphics

Road deaths in Britain 1998 to 2008 – interactive map

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8412891.stm