Road safety facts

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Browse below for our fact sheets on road safety and victim care. These do not include latest statistics on road death and injury. For these, visit government websites.

For info on our campaigning work on many of the topic below, see our campaigns pages

road_safety_factsSpeed and vulnerable road user safety  
Speed, stopping distances and collisions    
Setting speed limits in communities 
Speed and overtaking on rural roads       
Motorway speeds                                                                
Speed enforcement    
Speed cameras 

Home zones to tackle speed in communities 
‘Naked’ roads    
Time to put the clocks forward in the UK
Cycle helmets 

Vehicles and crash protection
4x4s and the dangers they pose  
Motorbike crashes with pedestrians and cyclists
   
Quad bikes and mini-motos

Child restraints 
Seat belts and crash protection
     

Motorway crash barriers  

Drink and drugs
Drink driving - an overview 
Drink driving - alcohol contents of drinks 
Drug driving - an overview
Drink and drug driving enforcement

Phones 
Mobile phones

Tiredness and stress   
Tiredness - an overview
Tiredness - sleep apnoea    
Stress - an overview

Young drivers, driving tests and health
Young drivers
Graduated licensing
Older drivers
Eyesight

Enforcement 
Speed enforcement 
Speed cameras     
Drink and drug driving enforcement 
Road policing in the UK 
Stopping the misery of ‘joy riding’ in the UK   
Truck and bus enforcement in the UK 

Fleet safety
Truck and bus enforcement in the UK   
Wheel loss 

Justice and offender rehabilitation    
Death and injury charges in the UK 
Hit and run drivers in the UK
Prosecution process in the UK
Sentencing in Causing Death by Dangerous Driving in the UK
Sentencing differences in the UK
Offender rehabilitation in the UK
Foreign drivers in the UK

Victim care
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 
Road crash injuries 
Head injuries   
Emergency care following a road crash in the UK
Roadside memorials in the UK
Organ and tissue donation in the UK
Photos of victims in the media in the UK
One man’s crash: a story from the 1960’s    

The carnage 
Road casualties across the globe
Road casualties in Britain: FAQs

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