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Road fatalities are fallling, but is it anything to do with road safety?

The number of people who die on the UK’s roads per year is indisputably on a downward trend but, at a conference organised by the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, several speakers suggested that this process may have very little to do with the Government’s road safety policies and, indeed, the whole road safety ‘industry’.

05 April 2013
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After several years of plateauing, the number of fatalities on Britain’s roads fell markedly between 2007 and 2010. Last month’s PACTS conference, snappily entitled ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics?’, devoted to the investigation of casualty trends and their causes, investigated the extent to which this gratifying decline may well have had very little to do with the road safety policies enacted by government. Louise Lloyd, a senior statistician from TRL, for example,...

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