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Pandemic reduces traffic but lives still lost on Cumbria roads

by CWH
27 June 2021
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Twenty people died and hundreds were seriously injured in road traffic accidents last year, figures for Cumbria Constabulary show.

With reduced road usage during the coronavirus pandemic, fatal and serious road traffic accidents dropped by more than a fifth across the country but 20 people still lost their lives due to collisions around Cumbria in 2020.

However, less traffic contributed to a 14 per cent decline in the number of people killed or seriously hurt locally and an overall drop of 29 per cent in the total number of casualties, from 1,344 in 2019 to 949.

Department for Transport figures show at least 252 suffered serious, potentially life-changing injuries.

And the number of people left with slight injuries is likely to be higher than the 677 recorded as not all crashes or collisions are reported.

The AA said the Government must do more to eradicate road deaths completely by the end of the decade while road safety charity Brake said it was unacceptable to see lives lost or changed forever as a result of preventable crashes.

Road traffic across Britain dropped by over a fifth in 2020 compared to the previous year with the overall number of casualties plunging by a quarter in that time.

But cyclist deaths rose, from 100 in 2019 to 140 last year.

A spokesman for Brake said the national decrease in deaths and serious injuries represented a step in the right direction and demonstrated the possibility of reducing casualties.

He called for better investment in vehicle safety and infrastructure, more segregated spaces for cyclists and pedestrians and appropriate speed limits, adding: “Every death on our roads is a tragedy for the victims’ loved ones, while injuries can have devastating consequences on an individual’s life.

“We need a concerted focus on reducing road deaths and catastrophic injuries. This requires ambitious targets to end the carnage on our roads.”

AA president Edmund King said 2020’s reduction in road traffic casualties should not become a “one-off” as he called for the Government to introduce road safety targets.

He said: “Regardless of how we use the roads, we all have a responsibility to one another to ensure people can travel safely.”

“For many years the Government has not set any road safety targets.

“If we are serious about a vision zero for road deaths the Government should urgently reintroduce targets so we can work hard to end road deaths as quickly as possible.”

A Department for Transport spokesman said: “While we have some of the safest roads in the world, this Government will continue to work tirelessly to ensure they are made even safer.

“Our targeted THINK! Campaign continues to educate road-users, and as part of our 2019 Road Safety Statement we committed to a two-year action plan to help promote safer driving on our roads.”

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