UK road deaths ‘lowest in Europe’!
on July 22nd, 2010 at 10:54 pmThe proportion of people dying in accidents on the UK’s roads is the lowest among all EU member states, new figures have revealed. According to the European Commission (EC), 38 out of every million UK inhabitants were killed on the country’s roads during 2009, placing it among the safest of EU member states. Sweden and the Netherlands both shared similarly low levels of road accident casualties, with 39 deaths per million inhabitants. All three countries showed similar improvements in casualty rates compared to 2001. The UK and Netherlands each managed to reduce road deaths by 35%, while Sweden did so by 39%. The average road death rate across the EU was 69 per million population, down 36% on the 113 deaths per million recorded in 2001. More
