UK's road accident map

An on-line link to the UK's accident statistics provides a chilling reminder of the country's road fatality rate. This gives a precise map of those killed on the nation's roads over the last 10 years. Some 32,955 have been killed and nearly 3 million people injured between 2000 and 2010. Transport data mapping specialist ITO World has revealed information gathered by the police in a dataset called Stats19, published by the Economic and Social Data Service.
May 9, 2012 Read time: 1 min
An on-line link to the UK’s accident statistics provides a chilling reminder of the country’s road fatality rate. This gives a precise map of those killed on the nation’s roads over the last 10 years. Some 32,955 have been killed and nearly 3 million people injured between 2000 and 2010. Transport data mapping specialist ITO World has revealed information gathered by the police in a dataset called Stats19, published by the Economic and Social Data Service.

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