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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
If you look at the UK stats the big change is in the years 2007-2010 where the % dropped by 7.1,13.8,12.5 & 16.7 respectively.
So it looks like the main drop in the UK rate is due to getting points on your licence for using a mobile (Used to be just a fine prior to this). Unless anyone can think of anything else that happened in 2007 - smoking ban in pubs possibly.
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UK road safety stats have been getting better for at least forty years, due to government attention to road safety - vehicle regulations, road improvements, drunk driving prosecutions and to a small extent, driver regulations.
Road deaths are now 25% of the rate in the 1970s in absolute numbers. And in that same time period, vehicle road miles has doubled.
If the USA had made the same progress in deaths per vehicle road mile, the current USA rate would be 20,000 instead of 32,000.
That is, a small amount of attention to road safety could save 12,000 lives a year in the US. Or four times the 11 September 2001 death toll. Every year.