Bedford Driving Lessons

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 past 10 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. Compared with other forms of transport travelling by road is far deadlier than going by train, plane or boat. Yet for some reason it’s largely tolerated. These deaths generate little of the coverage or thundering newspaper commentary that typically follow fatal rail accidents or those involving aircraft. Train crashes are dramatic but cause far fewer casualties “There’s still fatalism about it all,” says Professor Murray Mackay, who began studying road crashes back in the 1960s. “Road casualties, like the poor, are always with us.” Full report and more info