Road casualties climb in many parts of Yorkshire after lockdown lull
In Sheffield, the Department of Transport recorded 956 injuries for 2021 and 970 for 2020. Both years are lower than 2019 when there were 1,191. But both Sheffield and Hull saw higher road deaths, with 13 in the South Yorkshire city last year and eight the year before.There were 687 injuries though for 2021 and 695 in 2020, making both years lower than the 936 in 2019.
Last week tens of thousands of children marched for safe streets in the UK in a campaign organised by road-safety charity Brake.Scott Williams, head of programme delivery at Brake, said every child should have the right to walk in their neighbourhood without fear of traffic or pollution.Overall, across Great Britain there were 127,967 road casualties in 2021 – an 11 per cent rise on the year before – while 1,560 people were killed.
Commenting on the Department for Transport figures, Mark Turner, chief executive of the Road Victims Trust, said: “It remains a terrible fact that four people will be killed on the roads of the UK each day, with many more suffering life-changing injuries. “The devastation and trauma caused by these collisions is immense and it is disturbing to see a climb in the numbers of people affected.”
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