Again with no evidence but plenty of insults, not least to the 30000
families this year newly having to deal with bereavement or a life
caring
for a seriously injured relative, being dismissed as 'boring'. Perhaps
to

Assuming that you are referring to those who have been killed or
seriously injured on the roads in the last year, or will likely be so
next year, the true figure is about 3500 individuals annually. This
doesn't come from the Daily Mail, but from officially published
statistics presumably collected by the police, emergency services and
hospitals.

So where does your figure of 30,000 come from? You call it "families
affected", and it's possible that one KSI may "affect" more than one
family so multiplying the number, but OTOH an accident affecting more
than one family member would lower it.

Will the Office for National Statistics do?

"News Release 2002/0314:
13 June 2002
ROAD CASUALTIES DOWN IN 2001, BUT ROAD DEATHS UP BY 1% (TR-013)
Provisional figures published today show that there were 313,046 road
casualties in Great Britain in 2001, 2 per cent fewer than in 2000. 40,537
people were killed or seriously injured in 2001, 2 per cent below the 2000
figure.

3,443 people were killed, 1 per cent more than in 2000, 37,094 were
seriously injured (down 3 per cent on 2000) and 272,509 were slightly
injured (2 per cent lower than in 2000). Road traffic levels were an
estimated 1 per cent higher than in 2000 and consequently, the all casualty
rate per 100 million vehicle kilometres was 3 per cent lower than in 2000. "

I have posted similar research before, so if you don't believe ONS there are
other references.



Richard