Death on the Roads * UK - Guide and map to

The BBC has published an interactive map and guide to death on Britain’s roads, using Department for Transport data from 1999 to 2008

London,UK -HGV UK -December 17, 2009: ... It reports that in total, 32,298 people have been killed on Britain’s roads over the past decade... Cathy Keeler, deputy chief executive of Brake said: “We know that communities are terribly concerned about the road deaths they see reported week in, week out in their local papers. Anyone who glibly says ‘We can’t worry about it; we’d never go out’ is blindly ignoring one of the worst social ills in our country... There’s plenty to be scared of: this is an epidemic that strikes indiscriminately, affecting people of all ages, devastating communities. If more than 30,000 people had been killed on trains or planes in the last ten years there would be a national outcry and politicians would be falling over themselves in the rush to implement policies to stop the carnage. We need politicians with a vision of a society that does not tolerate death or injury on roads, and the will to take positive action to ensure that no-one’s love of risk-taking on roads endangers anyone’s right to life”... (Photo from news.bbc)