The British crash less

By: Drivers.com staff
Date: 2007-07-04

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The U.K. Department of Transportation has just released its national statistics on road casualties for Great Britain in 2006. It reports that the number of people killed in road accidents declined slightly by 1%, from 3,201 in 2005 to 3,172 in 2006.

By way of comparison, annual fatalities in the United States seem to be holding steady in the region of about 42,000 per year. That's about 13 times as many as the UK. The population of the UK is estimated at just over 60 million in 2007, compared with just over 300 million in the U.S.

However, the difference in fatality rate may not be as dramatic as it seems. At almost 10 million square kilometers, the U.S. is 40 times the size of the U.K., which means Americans drive a lot more.

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