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26/06/2009
The number of road deaths notified to police fell by 14% last year, the Department for Transport (DfT) has reported.
The number of people killed on the roads dropped from 2,946 in 2007 to 2,538 in 2008, achieving a 40% reduction on the 1994-98 average - the target set out in the Government's 2000 road safety strategy.
The DfT's statistics show that the overall number of road casualties in Great Britain was down 7% on the previous year to 231,000. Pedestrian deaths fell 11% to 572, the number of cyclists killed dropped by 16% to 136 and motorcycle fatalities were also down 16% to 493.
The number of children killed or seriously injured also fell 9%, to 2,807, but failed to meet the target set by the Government, which wanted to see child deaths down 50% on 1994-98 levels.
The statistics are released a week after an Institute of Advanced Motorists' report named British roads at the sixth safest in the world.
However, the Road Safety Foundation today claimed that 60% of Britain's A-roads are not safe.
In a report into the quality of Britain's roads, it suggested that single-carriageway A-roads were most dangerous.
Dr Joanne Hill, director of the Foundation, said: "It is the busy non-primary routes - the ones that take volumes of traffic at all hours between towns and villages across Britain - that the new survey shows represent the highest risk, accounting for 62% of all road deaths."
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