5 Conclusion
158. The number of deaths and injuries on our
roads far outweighs the deaths and injuries in other transport
modes or in other work-related accidents. It is time that we stopped
seeing this as a collection of individual tragedies and started
viewing it as the major public health problem of our age. Because
young people are disproportionately affected, more life-years
are lost due to road accidents than any other single cause. For
decades every road safety minister has prefaced his or her speeches
with a reference to this terrible toll; yet this is not news and
somehow it is accepted. PACTS has called this the "scandal
of tolerance".[165]
We should tolerate it no longer. A bolder and more integrated
strategy is required beyond 2010 to restore the UK to its position
as a world leader in road safety.
165 PACTS, op.cit., p24 Back
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