Britain is 'lagging behind Europe in cutting road deaths'

[Lord-Flasheart]

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/arti

What do you make of this artical?

[negative creep]

well obviously we need more speed cameras and bus lanes. If everyone drove at the speed limit no one would ever get killed

[herewego]

I think it's poor journalism. To compare percentage drops doesn't make sense when they could compare actual per km numbers. The last figures I saw showed the UK to be better than the rest Europe with the exception of Scandinavia.
The last paragraph saddens me. The correct response to drink driving is to enforce the law, not to drop the limit.

[skodaku]

Pointless article; merely writing words to justify a pay cheque. Comparing % drops is just playing with numbers - surely depends where you start from. Thos with higher accident rates should be able to outperform those with much lower start figures.............yet still end up with higher actuals.

More ammo for the scamera brigade; which is possibly the intention. Damned chattering classes.

As someone else said, let's see the death per 100,000km or whatever figures.

[vonhosen]

EUROAP report in 2002 said:

Expressed as road fatalities per 100,000 population, the risk of being killed in a
traffic accident in Portugal (21) and Greece (20.2) is three times higher than in
Britain (5.9), Sweden (6.6) and the Netherlands (6.9); twice as high as in
Germany (9.5) Denmark (9.7), Italy (11) and Ireland (11); and 25 per cent higher
than in Austria (13.4), Luxembourg (13.5), Belgium (13.7), France (14.4) and
Spain (14.6)

The safest roads everywhere in Europe are undoubtedly the motorways – though
again Portugal shows the worst record with 14.1 deaths per billion vehicle-km.
Italy is next with 10.2, followed by Austria (8.9), Belgium (7.2), France (5.4) and
Finland (5.0). Lower-rate countries are Germany (4.5), Denmark (4.3), Ireland
(4.0), Switzerland (3.3), Netherlands (3.3), Sweden (3.2) and Britain (2.0).


For countries that supply data on A-level roads (ie, those roads that are
immediately below motorway standard) Austria (22.9 deaths per billion vehicle-
km), France (20.6), Belgium (19.9) and Germany (19.5) show high fatality rates.
Britain (6.2 deaths per billion vehicle-km) has the lowest fatality rate, followed by
Finland (12.2), Ireland (14.0), Denmark (15.5) and the Netherlands (17.5).