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Don’t overlook progress in bringing road deaths down

Philip Sulley, Yalding, Kent ME18
16 September 2016
 

With regard to correspondence (LTT 02 Sep) regarding road deaths and suggestions to remove either cyclists or motor vehicles from highways (both in my view idiotic, to put it mildly), I would make the following points. 

Firstly, the number of overall fatalities has reduced significantly from a peak of some 7,500 in 1970 to currently some 1,700. Fatalities in relation to vehicle mileage and the number of motor vehicles have both fallen by 95% since 1950.

With regard to cycling, the annual...

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