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Overall, according to the Governments road traffic statistic report, 328.1 billion miles were driven on Great Britain’s roads in 2018, a 0.3% increase to the previous year. With cars becoming more accessible, means more people are on the roads. This leads to congestion which may result in road accidents.
According to the road traffic statistics, we can see that between 1993 – 2018 billions of traffic was created across Great Britain annually. In 2018 alone, 280 billion vehicles drove around England. We see in this graph provided by the Government that there has been an increase since 1993, especially in England. Wales and Scotland have stayed both relatively flat with their annual traffic, not averaging higher than 35 billion. Britain however shows an increase until cerca.2007, a slight decrease until cerca.2013 and then a rapid increase.
More traffic is transmitted annually around Great Britain than Wales and Scotland combined. This is due to the size of Britain being a lot larger, being 130,000km2 whilst Scotland is 77,000km2 and Wales being 21,000km2. Britain moreover holds a larger population with around 57 million, compared to 5.4 million in Scotland and 3.1 million in Wales.
Accidents can occur from many different reasons.
By fault, the most obvious reasons and causes of road traffic accidents are:
· Speeding
· Weather conditions
· Distracted/dangerous driving
· Alcohol and drug induced driving
· Tiredness
· Car malfunctions
According to RegTransfers.co.uk (2018) the most common cause of accidents is by driver error. This could be from suddenly braking, to poor manoeuvring and loss of control or failing to look properly.
According to the governments statistical release for 2018, there were 1,784 reported road deaths and 25,511 serious injuries in Great Britain 2018. It is praised as this is the lowest on record, and shows a 6% decrease to the year before.
And note this doesn’t include all personal injuries, as not everyone contacts the police.
The data from 2018 is shown to have decreased from years prior. By looking at the data given from previous years, 2018 had a decrease. This could be results from better road works, better car manufacturing and overall more awareness on car safety. In 1979 we can see that there was 6,352 casualties in a comparison to 1.784 in 2018. Each year is shown to have decreased, with a massive 30% decrease since 2008 alone.
As reported by new research, Autocar.co.uk stated that ‘The UK's road network continues to have the best safety record in Europe’. This could moreover increase due to the recent passing of legislation that will require all new cars sold in the EU from 2022 to be fitted with a range of active safety systems, including intelligent speed limiters, in a bid to improve safety.
The UK is praised for its easiness to get by. There is only a few basic driving rules:
· Speed limits variations
Motorways is set to no higher than 70 miles per hour, country roads it slows down to 40 or 50 mph. And once you enter a village, a city center, or a built-up residential area, the speed limit is never more than 30 mph and may be posted for 20 mph.
· U-turns
· Right of way
· Toll roads
· No drinking alcohol or using mobile devises
· Seat belts
· Driving on the left side of the road
All of these points have developed and improved throughout the years, meaning that this could be a major factor as to why the results of 2018 was lower to previous years. With continuous advancements, road safety should get better, resulting in hopefully, less accidents.
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