The simple answer to that question is "safer than ever". In accordance with a government reported street accident statistics report released in March this year, road traffic accidents and casualty numbers due to car accidents on our streets are at their lowest point ever since 1926.
The simple answer to that question is "safer than ever". Ever since the year 1926, the road traffic fatalities and accidents due to car accidents continues to lie low according to the current street accidents statistics report that the government issued last March this year.
The 1938 road statistics reveal that people would travel about 74.2 billion miles every year, as a result the highway accident deaths reported in 1941 has reached a staggering 9,169 people involved. That was almost double the number killed in 1926, which stands at 4,886. As a matter of fact, the local driving test was stopped during WWII, and this meant that in 1941 there were lots of drivers on the street who didn’t have a driver’s license. It may go some way towards explaining the figures.
On the other hand, when you consider that the UK manufacturing industry produced only 379,310 passenger cars in 1937, in comparison with 28.8 million cars that were licensed for use on Britain’s highways in March 2013, you soon understand how much safer we have become. In the year 1938, for each 100 million kilometers travelled by drivers, there were 314 casualties and 6,648 were killed. By contrast, the number of road fatalities in 2011 stands at 1,901, which equates to only 41 casualties per 100 million kilometers. Having said that, these numbers should still be documented.
In 1968, a new law was imposed which makes every car manufacturers to produce vehicles with seat belts in the front seats. This followed an all time peak of 398,000 casualties including deaths in 1965 and may have led to the gradual decline from then, even though the use of of belts didn’t become mandatory until January 31 1983, by which time the yearly death toll stood at 5,445. When the 1990s has entered, road deaths had finally dropped to less than 4,000. In the year 2007, there were only 2946 deaths, this figure took ten or much more years to keep it less than 3,000. Since that time the number of deaths has lowered substantially to an all-time low in 2010 of just 1,850, with casualty numbers decreasing less tremendously from 303,000 in 2002 to 202,000 in 2011.
According to the report, almost all road casualties were sustained due to accidents in cars. To be precise, 61% of the recorded casualty comes from road accidents, and 46% of the deaths in 2011 are car motorists and passengers. About 24% of pedestrian deaths were accounted in all fatalities in 2011, and 19% of those who died were drivers or passengers of motorcycles while on the road.
So think it over. It has hit a total of 488,900,000,000 kilometers distance travelled by vehicles in 2011 compared to the year 1938, it just hit 46,700,000,000 and considerably, road deaths have also decreased in the previous years. Because of the stricter road safety laws and rules and safer vehicles, the number of people dying because of accidents has dropped for good, which just means that you’re much safer to drive now than ever before.
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