Download or read book Road Accidents Great Britain written by Department of Transport Staff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual survey presents statistics about personal injury road accidents in 2001 and their consequent casualties. Between 1951 and 2001 there has been a six-fold increase in the number of vehicles, but the number of injury accidents has increased by less than a third. Yet a figure of 229,000 injury accidents in 2001, with over 40,000 people killed or seriously injured, points to this remaining a serious road safety problem. Against this background the Government announced a new road safety strategy in 2000, with casualty reduction targets for 2010 with special emphasis on child casualties. The statistics in this volume give the baseline averages to be used in monitoring the new targets, and an article examines the progress to date. Other articles cover drinking and driving, and an interim report on the 2002 quality review of road accident injury statistics.