Other Forgotten factors in road safety statistics.

Apart from the obvious and I left a few for people to add there own.

I ask the question, hasn't medical science increased the probability of survival any?

Haven't ambulance services improved over these years?

Hasn't road training improved?

Vehicle design has surely improved the probability of survival, although I do debate the energy increase with the increased weight.

If you answer yes to these or a couple of these then we should then see a linear decrease in the road toll over the years, but the only improvements in road statistics has been with the introduction of seat belts and drink driving campaigns and considering everything else that has improved and there has been no linear decrease in the road toll to coincide, the focuss should move away from behavioural safety onto road design.

The only pure statistics are the actual death rates.

Regards
Daniel