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The Daily Express reports today that 188 people have been killed by emergency service vehicles involved in accidents over the last five years.
The report goes on to say that vehicles running on 'blue lights' were involved in 11,295 smashes in Britain between 2002 and 2007, with Police vehicles causing the most deaths - with over 30 recorded in 2007 alone - followed by the Ambulance Service and the Fire Brigade.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) warned that the true figure may be even higher as data was not available for every force.
Liberal democrat transport spokesman Norman Baker has written to both the Home Secretary and the President of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) calling for a review of procedures to see how accidents can be minimised.
The IPCC have campaigned for black box recorders to be fitted to all police cars as they claim that this would stop drivers from taking unnecessary risks during police chases. The ACPO are considering introducing them on all new cars.
Kevin Clinton, the head of Road Safety at ROSPA said ‘High speed drives should only be undertaken if essential, and event then, safety should be the first priority to avoid turning one emergency into two’.
The RAC backed the call for a safety review, and added that the figure were ‘alarming’
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