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Very interesting figures! I was wondering if anyone could do an average for, say, 1945-1955 and 1995-2005, and are there any corresponding facts about numbers of cars/annual milage?

Is there a web site with these stats?

It's all there somewhere on the DfT transport statistics site:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/da ... lications/

This is the key table you want:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/da ... ype182.pdf

Annual fatalities reached a peak of 7985 in 1966. The casualty rate per 100 billion vehicle kilometres is now less than a fifth of what it was in 1950, so there has been a dramatic improvement.

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Very interesting statistics, done some graphs but need some time to do some full number crunching,but generally it seems that things are far better than the 1950's as you say.

I don't know what all the fuss is about - specially if you drive between 4 and 6am.