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Rethink KSI fixation, says health chief

20 March 2015
 

The number of people killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents is a poor measure of the health impacts of transport, a West Yorkshire council health chief has said.  

Paul Butcher, Calderdale Council’s director of public health, told last week’s 20’s Plenty for Us conference in Cambridge that using KSI figures as the key measure of transport’s impact on health had to be challenged. He said that in 2008 there had been 2,538 deaths in road traffic...

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