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Road Accidents - the facts
Each year, 3,200 people — including 500 young people — are killed on UK roads.
- The risk for children rises sharply when they move from primary to secondary school.
- An eleven-year-old is twice as likely as a ten-year-old to be killed or seriously injured in a road accident on their way to school.
- Over half of road accident deaths occur before the emergency services arrive.
- It can take less than four minutes for a blocked airway to cause death — it takes around eight minutes for emergency services to reach even the most urgent cases.
Did you know?
Up to 85 per cent of preventable pre-hospital deaths from road accidents could be sucessfully avoided by administering basic first aid to the casualty before the emergency services arrive.
