uplink – Premier Member
& yet the UK has one of the lowest death rates [on the road] in Europe
certainly lower than the already mentioned Germans & French
The fact that there are more cars per capita and congestion is more noticeable in the UK has a role to play here – slower cars, less deaths. France is a bigger country, fewer people, and relies a lot on "fast" A road equivalents, regions over there have avoided the temptation to dual carriageway everything. So in the same way the notorious roads in the UK for deaths are the fast country roads, in a country where proportionately more journeys are done on such roads, they have a higher death rate.
Germans death rate increased when it was unified, and the eastern germans just were not used to faster cars than Trabbies and faster, well built roads.
