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Britain’s road safety performance: are we as sunny as we think?

Oliver Carsten, Professor of Transport Safety, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2
25 March 2014

 

The three countries in the world that do best in terms of road safety performance — Sweden, the UK and the Netherlands —  are collectively termed the SUNflower countries based on the fact that their initial letters spell SUN. The name was first applied in a report from SWOV by Matthijs Koornstra and others in 2002 entitled SUNflower: a comparative study of the development of road safety in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Since then, these countries have...

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