A leading road safety charity has slammed government complacency as new figures suggest a rise in road accident fatalities.
Estimated figures from the Department for Transport show that 1,780 people were killed on UK road in the twelve month period up to the end of September 2015, which road safety charity Brake says represents a 3% increase. Of greater concern to the charity is the estimated 5,620 drink-drive crashes resulting in 240 deaths, or 14% of the overall number of fatalities. Brake is calling on the government to take tougher measures to tackle the problem of drink driving.
Gary Rae, campaigns director for Brake, said: “Behind the statistics, families are ripped apart by what is a violent and sudden death. I want to know what the government intends to do to stop these wholly preventable deaths. It’s time for them to take action: reintroduce casualty reduction targets; reduce the drink drive limit to 20mg per 100ml of blood, and introduce much tougher penalties for criminal drivers.”
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